Eight minutes of walking that'll wreck you harder than a three-hour epic.
A gay man loses his partner. We hear his deepest thoughts as he walks through the woods of Mohonk; this internal voice is punctuated by graphic glimpses of new grief, interruptive and savage. Gradually the man explores his feelings and the landscape together, almost unconsciously allowing nature to infiltrate his being. He finds a hill, a horizon, a viewpoint - no conclusion but perhaps possibility along with perspective.
Direction
Bonnie Wright lets landscape do the acting.
Sound
Internal monologue that feels illegally intimate.
Cinematography
Mohonk's woods become a character in mourning.
Director
Bonnie Wright
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Christian Coulson played young Tom Riddle; this is his complete opposite—vulnerable, exposed, with no dialogue.
Part of a wave of 2010s queer short films using landscape to process grief when traditional structures fail LGBT mourners.
US
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