We’re all looking at the same thing.
We all have to juggle multiple tasks at once. The pressure of being in many places, fulfilling different roles, learning, performing and discovering, can be overwhelming.
In the rush of it all, we can feel isolated, like we’re each running a race no one else sees. It feels like we’re ever more bound by systems.
Constantly uploading. Constantly comparing. Constantly competing.
We keep trying to tell ourselves we’re different. But what if we’re all quite similar? Beneath the surface, there’s a quiet thread that connects us. A kind of stopgap in the noise of life that binds our mutual interests and instincts. The habitual things we all do – eating, sleeping, moving, blinking – are shared rhythms.
These simple acts become anchors. Reminders that we’re not alone in the race, even when it feels that way.
We’re all busy. We’re all going through something. We’re all longing for connection. We exist on different corners and yet we resist and persist in similar territories. We are everything, everywhere, all at once.
And here, we find meaning. Sometimes, we find beauty.
To each our own perspective.
Same sky, different clouds.
We’re all looking at the same thing.
A short film by DOP & Director: @gabehanvey
NYC co-director: @sophiehur
Editor: @geri______tv@thequarryedit
Colourist: @maxfergusonhook@wearecrayon
Music & Sound design: @jonahgabriel__
Featuring @mishka_dii@sophiehur@abby__keep@louisdn@tatt.toosh@chiarayiontis
“I think beauty is so much more than one, universal ideaI. Everyone has a different relationship to beauty. We can’t expect someone else to feel the same. We can’t ask them to feel beautiful and we can’t tell them that they’re not allowed to feel ugly, that they should look like this or that... and yet we do and that feels weird, that’s what beauty has become.
It feels like this wasn’t the way it used to be. It feels like beauty was layered, more about an experience. With friends, or on your own, at your favourite places. Was beauty maybe a feeling instead? That’s what I think about, when I think about beauty. That’s what I’m trying to understand: these moments in-between.
In-between getting ready, in-between putting our makeup on, in-between taking our makeup off.
I think it’s ok that we see beauty differently. I want to know what you see.”
‘In-between’. A short story directed by Roman Anastasios @romanshootsfilm
Talent @mikaelasabini@soumeya_toutou@jemimahd@turbo__pop
Studio @outro.au & @pinkmilk.film
Producer @_poll_@oscarcarveth
DoP @jrbfilms
AC @raphael.cali
Stylist & Assistant Narrative @bullant_
Sound Design & Mix @chrislanzon
Colourist @jrbfilms
Edit @romanshootsfilm
Shot on location at @florian.eatery , @grillamericano , and @flindersphotobooth .
Beauty moves in ways we don’t expect. It connects us to a bigger narrative. About identity. It challenges our assumptions. It questions our consumption.
We hold onto so many ideas. So many ideals. So many rigid rules. But beauty is so much more.
It’s “An irrepressible energy. A wretched boredom. Going somewhere you’re not supposed to. A rebellion stemming from ennui and disaffection. When everything around you is f*cking boring, that’s just permission to make your own fun, even if it means breaking a few rules and bones along the way.” - Carlo McCormick.
Velocity and elevation, mischief and magic, gravitational defiance and sudden impact.
we get lost in it.
we hold onto it.
it is beautiful.
“POCKET FULL OF SILVER”, a short film by DOP & Editor: @gabehanvey
Skaters: @noahfuzi@riwazhere@_negroamigo@j0eleo
Set design: @suryadavidwhite
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