PAPER THIN REALITY - A Short Film by Polaris Castillo

The premise: A woman becomes trapped in a state between dream and reality.

This is a short film I wrote, directed, produced + edited starting late last year and recently finished in late April 2011.

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http://www.PolarisCastillo.com

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- Polaris Castillo

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[LeighAnne112087]

I don't know what just happened, but it was awesome. :]

[Professortorcoolguy1]

@UnbornChild Well he succeeded.

[UnbornChild]

@Professortorcoolguy1 Yep, I'm sure disturbing the audience was part of Lynch's goal, and that's a valid one.

[Professortorcoolguy1]

@UnbornChild except, I found Eraserhead genuinely disturbing...and there was more than one place that legitimately scared me...Imma go watch Zeotrope again. It's like going through the Ludovico treatment. Except intriguing.

[UnbornChild]

@Professortorcoolguy1 There you go! You've got it!

[Professortorcoolguy1]

@UnbornChild Well, it was plenty enjoyable. Being someone who puts so much importance in dreaming I understood a lot more in it...buteventheniwouldn'treall­ycareit'sjustawesome.

If you can't find meaning, watch it again without trying to find any. That's always a safe, fun thing to do.

[UnbornChild]

@Professortorcoolguy1 Well don't stress it.. all art is much more about the experience than the "getting it". Just be immersed in the world of it...watch it, live it, cool. I know that for this film I made that we're leaving comments on that a whole lot of people didn't "get it", and they've told me that. But it doesn't upset me, because that's not the point.

[Professortorcoolguy1]

@UnbornChild I've seen films that are just weird for weirdness's sake. Eraserhead isn't exactly one of those. There's a point...I'm just too dumb to figure it out...

[UnbornChild]

@Professortorcoolguy1 I think that's the point of any art. The point of surreal is the dream-based content. I only said that because people point out "Eraserhead" as if Lynch was just being weird for the sake of being weird.

[Professortorcoolguy1]

@UnbornChild Isn't that the point of surreal art? That everyone sees it differently?