RAYMOND GIBSON ________________________________________
The Divisible a short film
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hot of woman’s hand placing flower on a gravesite.
Shot of man’s hand with sand trickling through fingers. (Note: if woman right-handed, man uses left, and vice versa). A woman’s hands underwater, struggling but sinking. Shot of man staring out at an ocean. A man’s hands clawing at the inside of a pine box. Shot of candle flaring in steady breeze. Drowning woman subjective to third-person camera, buried man subjective to third person camera. The man’s hand empty, the candle blows out Reveal they are the same man, beach sunset, seemingly lost. Reveal they are the same woman, graveside, visibly upset. Smoke rises from snuffed candle, match cut tracking shot, a rolling ball of yarn unravels to a thread. Tracking shot through an interior hallway, with beach sand spilled out of the open doorways which line it. Shot of opening closet, one sweater on a wire hanger, one wire hanger untwisted on the floor by it.
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