Jury’s Notes – Melanie Wilmink

The sun dances to pages of worthless markings;
devils follow the slingshot of burning gold to superficial light.
Feast on the sucker’s shoes, taste disastrous eyes.
Flight and the judgment of sound plead with juried baskings of turtles on settled sands.
They leave trails of trees behind in their oceanic footprints, forests that flee from the fading limbs and collapse under the weight of time’s own crumbling.

Project this poem.
And let it’s light caress your skin and make you a story.

Surrealism on Film is a series of fragmented, beautiful moments that make up something important.

Like a poem, these short films act quickly;
They show their image and demonstrate its beauty.
No explanation necessary.

That’s your job.
Take these moments and make them your own.  Surrealism seeks shattered boundaries.  Shatter them.  Embrace these fragments of visual poetry and find your meaning, should you need that, or discard the idea of meaning, should that strike your fancy.

The only thing I, we, this program, these films require of you is that you put down everything you have known up to this point and open yourself to the unknown, the unconscious and the unsettling.

You may not like it.

You may like it too much.
- I hope you do.  (Melanie Wilmink)

~ by surrealfilm on December 1, 2008.