18 minutes that'll make you side-eye every golden sunset for a week.
A difficult night out sparks a traumatic memory for a woman whose way out is to ritualistically harm, then fix herself. Intercutting the two states of the protagonist's psyche, rich golden sweeps from the past begin to bleed into the reds and blues of the film's present.
Cinematography
Those bleeding gold-to-red transitions are doing SO much emotional labor.
Editing
The intercutting between 'then' and 'now' is disorienting in the best way.
Director
Sarah Turner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sarah Turner shot this on 16mm and chemically processed the film herself to achieve those bleeding color shifts — no digital grading in 1999, baby.
Cut arrived during a wave of British avant-garde filmmakers (Turner, Carine Adler, Molly Dineen) using the short form to explore female subjectivity through formal experimentation rather than dialogue.
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