Short film

Above the Lake

1995 · 10 min

A slow, dreamlike plunge into silent-era melancholy, where poetic images and emotional exhaustion linger longer than any plot.

Overview: Avant-garde homage to pre-revolution Russian silent movies, and to the poet Aleksandr Blok.
How it feels: Melancholic, romantic, earnest and eerie. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Love, obsession, identity, art
Content: Mild sexual content. No violence, gore or swearing.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: love
obsession
identity
art
memory
Places: countryside
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex mild

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