Of Memories and Madness

Film Information

Year: 2020

Genre: Short Experimental

Location: Forestville, New South Wales Australia

Runtime: 7

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Q&A with MARIA DE LA OSSA

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Cast & Crew

WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER Maria de la Ossa
KEY CAST Benjamin Brock, Kai Higgins
CINEMATOGRAPHER Tahsin Rahman, Casimir Dickson
MUSIC BY Sal Leonardo

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Synopsis

The inner voice journey of a brokenhearted man as his triggered memories of a past love slowly make him delve into a soul-crushing madness for longing and the acceptance to close that chapter and move on.

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dIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

I was going through a divorce with my partner of sixteen years... It started as me just writing my feelings and what was going inside my head. The creeping heartbreak I was suffering as I watched the man I love leave so easily and move on... I decided to flip it around to make it seem it was his suffering, it was a way for me to cope, to not feel hate to somehow in my mind make him seem that he suffered as well. It was a very cathartic process. That there is beauty in endings.

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