She was playing with the mist. She made balls of smoke and rolled them into the denser mist. Then, she would go in looking for the ball. Each time when she came out with the ball she realized that it was not the ball she had rolled inside. And so, she understood that someone else was playing the same game from some other corner of the mist.
She decided to go looking for her playmates. She walked deeper into the mist and came out of some other corner. There was no one present but a few more balls of smoke waited for her. She kept down the ball she had in her hand and picked up another ball. Then, she looked around. Still there was no one to be found.
So, she turned around and started returning to the corner from where she had started. But when she had crossed the mist she found that she had come out of some other corner. And there were more balls over here.
She couldn't decide which one to pick up.
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Comments: 13
Clown, my comments are beginning to sound like your writing.
I was watching Bergman yesterday - The Seventh Seal. You never grow tired of watching his movies.
Smile.
Meshes of the Afternoon by Maya Deren
Last Year at Marienbad by Alain Renais
Koyanisqaatis by Godfrey Reggio
What Dreams May Come (contemporary)
Care to add any?
Ulysses Gaze by Theo Angelopoulos
Underground by Emir Kusturica &
Blue Velvet by David Lynch (if you haven't watched it already).
Smile.
I recently watched Brimstone and Treacle. It's a very good British drawing-room movie with surreal flashes. Edgy, though.
There was a movie from Spain released last year I think, about a little girl who could travel between the real world and a fantasy world. It was great, but I can't remember the name of the movie or the director. It got good press, though.
Does that ring any bells for you?
Hmmm. Maybe we need to do an article with a list of good surreal movies and a short synopsis of each. That might be a good user-friendly article for Surreal Circus. We probably could steal images off of the internet for illustrations.
wreckless images thrown from the screen
which shall we carry?
Upon re-reading, I think this is my favorite of your works so far. Some of the others seemed like a beginning without an end. But this beautiful little piece is completely self-contained, like our universe or our own personal view of reality (which are, of course, the same thing).
A movie suggestion for you and Ann's list is "Brazil," directed by Terry Gilliam.