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

Genre

Experimental Fantasy Woman Director

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Helen Anna Flanagan

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