Layers (short film)
| Layers | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Zabëlle Skye |
| Produced by | Zabëlle Skye |
| Written by | Zabëlle Skye |
| Starring | Zabëlle Skye |
| Music by | Zabëlle Skye |
| Edited by | Zabëlle Skye |
Release date | 12 June 2018 |
Running time | 3 minutes |
| Country |  Kingdom of New Finland |
Layers is a 2018 New Finlandic surrealist short film created, directed and produced by artistic filmmaker and actor Zabëlle Skye. It was Skye's first film produced independently from his studio Z&jProductions. The film was made in homage to the surrealist cinema movement in France in the 1920s, and stars Skye as a young man, named Alice, doing mundane tasks in unusual manners with unexpected juxtapositions.
Plot
Throughout the film, Alice repeatedly looks directly into the camera, and his shirt chances in every scene. Alice wakes up and puts on three pears of glasses; in the next scene he is wearing only one. He gets up and walks downstairs, where, upon entering the kitchen, he drinks from an empty cup with water suddenly appearing and filling it up. He goes to get cereal, and teleports whilst standing still apathetic from step to step. The film ends with him drinking from a water bottle played in reverse.
Production
Skye became inspired to create the film upon learning about surrealist cinema at his film school in Surrey, UK. He spent the next week writing down a list of ideas for the film, and picked Skyeington (now New Leeds) as the filming location. Production took place on 12 June 2018, and the film was released on the same day. It was his first film not to be produced or distributed by Z&jProductions, a film studio he and his younger brother co-founded, due to the nature of the film. It was filmed on an iPad 5 at 30 frames per second, and he added a black and white filter in post-production. It was edited with iMovie, and for the scene played in reverse Skye used ezGIF.com. Skye also composed an untitled piano song for the film.
Copyright status
Skye has stated that the film is available under the Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0), indicating that a person may copy, download and redistribute the material in any medium or format (as well as remix, transform or build upon the material), so long as they do not use the material for commercial purposes and give credit to Skye.
Remake
A remake of Layers by Skye with the eponymous title is planned for late 2021.
See also
- Being Born Twelve Times (2019)–another surrealist film created by Skye
- Insaniam (2020)–another surrealist film created by Skye
External links
- Filmography of Zabëlle Skye on Google Docs