Well Wishes My Love, Your Love | Eco-Queer Animated Short
A gentle animation that played Sundance and Ann Arbor. Newly orphaned and freshly wounded from a loss, a boy lends his companion a prosthetic arm for the day. The companion records the arm being exposed to different textures and materials. What will become of the limb and the video recordings?
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🦾 Well Wishes my Love, Your Love 🌕
A Film by Gabriel Gabriel Garble
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"The style of Well Wishes My Love, Your Love is magical and it is misleading to describe the appeal of the film and avoid this core observation. From the Malaysian artist Gabriel Gabriel Garble, the film utilizes an aesthetic that is immediately striking—electrically colored and geometrically designed, it is something that is more and more difficult to uncover in an online world where techniques and trends are shared and iterated upon ceaselessly—true freshness.
However, an overemphasis on style suggests a film carried by it, a selection based on a visual attractiveness that covers up a corresponding lack. That is far from the case though. The visual dynamism of the film is necessary, but not as a cover for some sort of vacancy. Instead, it is a compensating hook that allows otherwise cynical or spectacle-seeking audiences to sink into the sort of gentle, atmospheric, and experiential story that they might otherwise buck against. Garble describes the film as “Eco-Queer” which seems like an odd formulation, but it is worth the effort to parse what they may mean by that in order to arrive at a deeper understanding.' - S/W Curator, Jason Sondhi
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