I made this in 2004 for a class, about a father telling his daughter a bedtime story, and then it shows them later in life, or earlier, or...I don't know what it's about, but it's a little mysterious, a little humorous, and a little poignant. Some people have claimed to find it scary, but I think that reaction is rare.

Exquisite early performances from Julia Read, Chelsea Miller, and Lupita Nyong'o.

Music by Can, Kronos Quartet and Vashti Bunyan.
  • Irina Shatalova plus 2 years ago
    You have a very unusual approach to cinema.
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  • Joe 2 years ago
    Unique use of black spaces, leaves so much for you to fill in for yourself.
  • Thanks! I'm glad it came through that way.
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  • Lance 2 years ago
    i like it. feels like a dream; and the bedtime stories, then taking place at the beginning and the end, find themselves in an appropriate placement such as to accent the correlation of awakening. just another diamond day...
  • Sure! I don't know if that's what I meant, but...The nice thing about this movie is that there are several ways people interpret it. When I first showed it, I noticed that a few people would independently interpret it one way and a few others another way, so it wasn't like everyone had their own interpretation; there were just different elements in there that some people picked up on, most of which I didn't intentionally orchestrate.
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  • Lance 2 years ago
    yeah, that's what i liked about it...

    to me it seems art like this is closest to the divine (here inferring that existence itself is perhaps the only quality which deserves such a denomination) insomuch as it is (like life) entirely what we make of it. art that tells us what it means is art that, generally speaking, is afraid of itself; though, conversely, art such as this may often be so as well, and is in fact probably more common (i.e. the artist obfuscates because of (and not with) uncertainty).

    i'm not accusing you of this necessarily (there seems to be a deep conviction behind what's been expressed, even if you, the artist, don't know why). I could go on for a while about this, i suppose; but i guess the bottom line is that i'd rather stare at static than a bad t.v. show.

    btw, nice job, once again. that part with the girl quoting the missy elliot song (?) got stuck in my head today, and that guy's voice is dead on tom waits... I think i'd actually like to try making something like this, now that I think about it... keep it up.
  • Well, it definitely was an adventure in the realm of uncertainty, so the obfuscation sort of expanded the adventure while indulging the uncertainty.
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