Love and death are inextricably linked.
That might sound like a strange connection to make but think about it – in death we find a deep and resonant graphic understanding of how powerful and eternal love can be, how even in loss there can be a profound sense of connection that cannot be broken, memories that cannot be lost and truth that survives even mortality.
Ripe ground indeed for a film of any kind, and Dutch filmmaker Marsha Onderstijn has made the most of it in her touching 2012 graduation short film The Life of Death which examines in a delightfully simple and beautiful way how powerfully connected love and death are in ways we cannot even imagine.
In fact, in the film, death is enraptured by life in the form of a doe with whom it form a close, unexpected and deeply intimate bond.
It’s an exquisitely lovely short film hat highlights in the most evocative way possible how powerfully live, love and death are and that we can never separate if we’re to fully understand the totality of existence.
(source: Indiewire)