Molly Lowe

Last week my Digital 2 professor, Patrick, took a bunch of us to 1708 to watch a film called Redwood by Molly Lowe. If you were not able to go and see the film i highly recommend that you do because I personally loved every second of it. The film is basically about a grandmother transferring all her memories over to her granddaughter (it was kinda black mirror isn). In the film, it seems that we are watching the memories as if they are the granddaughters because throughout the movie, she is the main character. All the actors in the movie are wearing ambiguous masks of abstracted faces and these odd hand like mittens. I thought that that was an awesome way to show people through memory because our memory is never always accurate. The film has undertones of marital abuse as well as loss of identity. It also touches on the way that people change over time. This is shown mostly through the man in the film (the one representing the husband). Basically, in the beginning, the two people are strong lovers and as time passes, the man changes and begins to drink regularly. This created an abusive relationship between the man and the woman. There is a scene close to the end of the film ( I believe it is an hour and ten minutes in length) that shows an old woman looking longingly through a window at the young man she originally fell in love with. I found this to be very powerful because people change all the time, especially in romantic partnerships. Without giving the whole plot away, I want to tell you about one other scene that stuck with me. The couple was sitting at the beach and the man reaches over and takes the woman's mask on, while leaving his on his face. He never puts it back on her. I read this as him taking her identity and viewing her as his property. Anyways, the film is shot beautifully and looks like you're watching a dream. Please check it out before its gone!!!!!

http://molly-lowe.com