Project Detail

Deeply, Madly

Girl in blue bathing suit in a swimming pool floating underwater
Woman lying down and a close up of her nostrils
Woman in a convenience store gazing into distance with cigarette packets in the background
Browning, rotting apples on a supermarket shelf
distorted view through water of a woman in a yellow bathing costume at the edge of a swimming pool

Synopsis

A woman muses on what it is to fall. To fall flat, heavily in love, deep into sleep, or into a holiday pool that time on a faraway Greek Island at 2am. Waves keep crashing, summoning Deeply, Madly as an obsession with moments of being mid-motion — bodies, emotions and time that all succumb to gravitational forces.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023
Official Selection Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2023

Details

Year
2022
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
27 min
Director
Helen Anna Flanagan
Producer
Helen Anna Flanagan
Editor
Helen Anna Flanagan
Screenwriter
Helen Anna Flanagan
Director of Photography
Nastasja Saerens, Julien Thiébaut
Sound
Vitalij Kuzkin
Composer
Moody Alien
Principal cast
Loveday Smith

Production Status

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