"Lonely Girl" by Daphne Gardner

Presented at UMBC's 12th annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day:
"Lonely Girl" is a narrative film that follows a young girl's evolving relationship with a pillow. The film is a study of the natural tendency of humans to avoid painful realities by substituting the inanimate and the imaginary for real experience. The main character in the film suffers multiple rejections and compensates by romancing an inanimate object, a giant pillow. The film was shot in 16mm black and white using Bolex cameras from the UMBC film cage. The film was cut, spliced and edited on a Steinbeck machine. The musical pieces that accompany the film are "Claire de Lune" and "Deux Arabesques No. 1 in F minor" both by Claude Debussy. I conceived, shot, starred in, and edited the film myself with the help of many friends. Evolving from its original conception of a self-deprecating view of my own personal relationships, the story of "Lonely Girl" finished as an optimistic look at how one can deal with the physical and emotional pain that are so often a part of real relationships.

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[bellaspecial]

hi.

i really liked it. there are wonderful pictures and monets, scence and expressions. exellent work!!!

[uptehpunxxx]

Great film. i saw this at umbc and at my highschool. the movie was amazing, plus it was fun seeing jordan in there. i wasnt expecting that at all

[christballard]

i liked this video a lot but i think the end was a two scarie for me taste. i wanted 2 see this because i thought it would not be a gory movie but then at the very last minute the blood comes out and i was tuned off from it. i gess what the say is write, theyre are no videos that cant use violence to sell anymore. at least the girl was pretty.

[SilverTimberwolf]

this film's pretty good 5*****

[miiihiii]

you're wonderful. too cool and so hot! (so hot is the title of number one pop song in korea right now.. it goes something like.. "I'm so hot, im so pretty, I'm so hot, I am too charming, I'm so cool, im too sexy")

your film made me cry.