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To Be

1982 · 6 min

A dreamlike, music-driven short that blurs screen and reality, leaving a quiet, unsettling sense of youthful alienation.

Overview
A bunch of young people, more or less hippies, waste time at the cinema with a dull film. On-screen, a man lies on the railway and awaits his end. But at some point the screen and reality become the same. Edited without dialogue, with songs by the Velvet Underground and Nico in the background, this is a portrait of the young generation of actors of the moment.
How it feels
Melancholic, eerie, tense and absurd. Slow-burning and demanding.
About
Isolation, death, identity, art
Content
Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
Note
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How it feels

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Full breakdown
Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • absurdstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Places
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror3
Humour2
Realism6
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity7
Emotional weight6

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