by Cookie N Screen
The story of life and love, for a majority of people, can be summed up easily by films. Two people meet, they fall in love, they get married and no matter how happily it ends, there is always tension. Sometimes, movies handle the subject with an overbearing romantic narrative that saturates the plot with this unrealism. Others are too heinously bleak and, whilst depicting real life situations, are heavy on the heart break. Director Antonio Marzotto’s Short Love Story is one teaming with humanity, in a small one inch coupled as they transcend through moments in their lives in calm and collected tranquillity
The story of life and love, for a majority of people, can be summed up easily by films. Two people meet, they fall in love, they get married and no matter how happily it ends, there is always tension. Sometimes, movies handle the subject with an overbearing romantic narrative that saturates the plot with this unrealism. Others are too heinously bleak and, whilst depicting real life situations, are heavy on the heart break. Director Antonio Marzotto’s Short Love Story is one teaming with humanity, in a small one inch coupled as they transcend through moments in their lives in calm and collected tranquillity
This is an intriguing and captivating short that differs with this unique perception on domestic life, both the highs and lows. What could have easily been embellished with painstaking stop motion animation was, instead, artistically stripped back to show these frozen moments in time throughout a couples life and in the same room. The interesting thing about Marzotto's work is how he sets up the pieces, rotating the scenery of the little box and therefore, rotating our perceptions. Though there is a clear story being told, the characters and their emotions still leave a lot to interpret and for audiences to devour. Short Love Story is sublime in its demonstration that this tableau of life could still breathe some much visceral content into the stillness of the scenes. There is much depth here because Marzotto lingers and revolves on the moments so we can really envisage the thoughts behind it.
Added to this already marvellous film is the evocative score that wraps around your spirit and enthuses with it. Scored by Claudio Laucci, Short Love Story is brimming with this music that really captures what Marzotto is trying to translate to the viewers. This tenderness, the delicate strings teaming with pain and romance, is vital to the entire film and enhances the story rather than drowns it.
Ultimately, Short Love Story is a daring and powerful short that is, ironically, thinking outside the box with how to tell stories that can only be somewhat mirrored by the succession of photographs in short films such as La Jetee that portray movement of life in its lack of it. And similarly to that famous short, it beats within its motionlessness and lives within these fantastic dioramas of life.
Check out the film below, what do you think?
Added to this already marvellous film is the evocative score that wraps around your spirit and enthuses with it. Scored by Claudio Laucci, Short Love Story is brimming with this music that really captures what Marzotto is trying to translate to the viewers. This tenderness, the delicate strings teaming with pain and romance, is vital to the entire film and enhances the story rather than drowns it.
Ultimately, Short Love Story is a daring and powerful short that is, ironically, thinking outside the box with how to tell stories that can only be somewhat mirrored by the succession of photographs in short films such as La Jetee that portray movement of life in its lack of it. And similarly to that famous short, it beats within its motionlessness and lives within these fantastic dioramas of life.
Check out the film below, what do you think?
Short Love Story from Antonio Marzotto on Vimeo.
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