The Moon

Pity the fool who feels too tired to watch a full-length movie so they pick a short film thinking it'll be easier to digest, but they pick something very experimental (pity me; I'm the fool).

The Moon is about a kid with a distorted face looking at/thinking about/being haunted - or hunted - by the moon. Also, the world around him distorts more and more as things go along, the moon appears behind doors, and the use of sound seems like it's supposed to be partly nostalgic and partly unsettling. I also kept thinking about the poster for Koyaanisqatsi with the moon on it.

Not much happens and I don't entirely know what to make of it, but complex emotions are evoked. I would like to read what other people have said about it.

If I had to do some sloppy late-night analysis, it feels to me like it's trying to be about the wonders and horrors and uncertainties of childhood all at once, inspired by looking at a distant rock in the sky and feeling small for the first time in one's life (the early realization that there's a world, but you're not the center of it), but that could just be me.

Too simple? Maybe. But this thing's only seven minutes long, so anything that short that can make me spit out a fair few sentences thinking about it with relative ease is probably doing something right.