Cinematic short story from a story i wrote some years ago.
Directed and Written by Elia Pellegrini
DOP, VFX and Soundtrack by Elia Pellegrini
Narrating Voice by Courtney Carter
SCRIPT:
I came into the world many years ago and grew up in a home that was hidden deep in the woods. My parents raised me to believe that we were alone, that no one else existed but us.
We had a lot of books. My favorite was "the solitude of life", it was a fantasy about a place populated by millions of people that live and die.
One day I left my window open so I could leave at sunrise. The sun was majestic and powerful and turned everything into gold. It made the sky come out of itself.
It took many hours to recover years of darkness. I couldn't take my eyes away from the water. And then... there was this.. flash of genius. If the river exists, then it must come from somewhere. So I decided to follow it.
Not only did the water rise against the law of gravity, but it altered its course to form a floating, silent, mysterious, vortex.
An intersection of new life emerged as the tear fell to a middle ground of plants and sand. I began to walk toward an eternal sand dune beneath the sun, headed for a destination I didn't know.
I was in the middle of two infinites. I was dying.
Not even the trees chose a side to stay on and maybe that's the key, maybe its not a question of choosing a side, but of accepting two infinities.
As I vanished I understood my choices.
I understood that I played a role as important as the stars and the sand.
I died but I discovered life.
