A young girl buries in her soul a memory of a painful moment, when as a child she brought home an injured bird and her father burdened by his own weight of worries didn’t notice her feelings and longing for understanding. The girl took her father’s reaction as indifference and closed herself in her inner world longing for her father’s love and its manifestations. Since that moment she and her dad continued to grow apart, and as an adult she is no longer able to accept his endearments. The father suffers from guilt and searches for a way back to his daughter, trying to revive their lost relationship.
Direction
Stop-motion so intimate it feels like memory itself.
Cinematography
Shallow focus = emotional distance made visible.
Acting
Puppet performances more human than most live actors.
Director
Daria Kashcheeva
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kashcheeva made this as her FAMU thesis film; it won the Student Academy Award and an Oscar nomination.
The shallow depth-of-field technique mirrors how trauma blurs everything except the wound itself.
CZ
