A Film by Vera Vaughn | Marin Ireland Stars in this Supernatural Thriller
A filmmaker falls through the looking glass into her movie, where she must face her own terrifying creation.
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A Film by Vera Vaughn
Dir. Sorrel Brae
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This thriller from director Sorrel Brae plays with the head in the best of ways—it’s a twisting, turning cinematic ouroboros that is bound to appeal to those who grew up watching old Twilight Zone episodes. Is it a movie about making movies? A conventional thriller? Both? It’s a short that’s difficult to classify, and thus, something that really appealed to the curation team here at Short of the Week. To be direct, it feels like a fresh entry in a genre that so often feels stale: it’s creepy, but it’s also built on a foundation of headier ideas.
Psychological thrillers are a notoriously difficult to pull off. Yes, we as film lovers adore the work of David Lynch, but very few actually get Lynch’s uncanny combination of surrealism and naturalism right. How does one make “weird” engaging? I don’t know if I have an actual answer to that question, but Vera Vaughn is a pertinent representative example. Does it make logical narrative sense? Not really. But, in its own serpentine, snake-eating-itself kind of way, it somehow all manages to coalesce. It’s logical like a dream is logical—managing to be abstract, yet still comprehensible. Again, that’s no easy feat.- S/W Curator, Ivan Kander
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