The Past Is a Foreign Country (2018)

Slow motion imagery of a female face is duplicated and superimposed over itself. One of these image tracks plays in reverse; the sound of a female voice recalling the first time that she saw her lover is played over and over again, overlapping multiple times until it becomes a wall of intense sound; and the music score is an ambient electronic drone that glides along with the visuals and the dialogue. All of these elements come together to create a film that is a meditation on memory.
- Released
- 2018-11-21
- Runtime
- 9 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Chris O’Neill
Cast
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