Short film
The Selves
1982 · 10 min
A hushed, essayistic ten minutes that drifts through inner voices and selves, asking quiet, patient attention from a viewer willing to sit with abstraction.
- Directed by
- Shellie Fleming
- Overview
- "I had an idea for quite some time for a film based on an essay by Lewis Thomas taken from a book that Will had lent me. Yes, the essay was ... I was sure … written just for me. It was called 'The Selves' […]" (SH)
- How it feels
- Eerie, melancholic and whimsical. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Identity, memory, isolation, science
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Shellie Fleming