“A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation” by Wallner and Leuchtenberg
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Title:
- A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation
Conference:
SIGGRAPH Video Review:
Length:
- 14:50
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Dancing Squirrel
- Lailaps Pictures
- Wavefront Studios
Description:
A young man’s father dies of cancer and the boy has to cope with the loss. Th e fi lm begins with the funeral and shows how feelings change throughout the years. It ends with the question: Is there a due date for grief…? There are two parts in the movie: A poem builds the framework for the storyline, spoken by Ian McKellen (Th e Lord of the Rings). Additionally, from time to time this structure is interrupted by thoughts and experiences of the boy, voice acted by Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare in Love). Th e prevailing mood of the movie is not grief and melancholy but an odd unstableness, sad and quiet passages take turns with anger, but also humor and self irony. Th e narration is neither euphemized in terms of political correctness, nor dramatized to fi t a classical story arc. Th e images on the other hand do not necessarily display reality. Th ey represent a point of view, not showing how things are, but how they feel. All in all “A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation” is a fi lm about the time consuming process of overcoming grief, with all its ups, downs, setbacks and silver linings.
