This video particularly stood out in my memory both because of its storyline as well as the artist's stylistic choices. In regards to such style, the still images used are brightly colored and clear, a contradiction to the rather dark climax of the piece. I liked the stop-motion aspect because it adds a layer of the surreal, where we can look through the eyes of these characters (in particular, through the girl's camera) but are unable to affect what happens. Likewise, the pictures move and move forward with the story, but they are not fluid.
I'm also a bit of a sucker for character-driven pieces, and I see this as a video that follows the intersection of two seemingly unrelated lives. The circumstances by which they initially "meet" certainly evoke a very strong reaction, one which most women can identify with. Though it does not really present an original situation, it was needed to give us the camera as a plot point, the device by which the man finds the woman again. The man's journey to find the woman through the use of the photographs that we saw her take in the beginning is very sweet and satisfying (in a circular way).
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