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Review: “THE MOTH AND THE FIREFLY”
Director: Daniel Stedman and Aron Epstein
Running Time: 5 minutes
Genre: Alternative
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Told with a child’s simplicity, Directors Daniel Stedman and Aron Epstein’s The Moth and the Firefly is a cute fairy tale about the most basic kind of love, about need in a lonely night. With no spoken words and only the smallest written narration, The Moth and the Firefly is quite literally about a moth’s search for a bulb to flit around.
Perhaps trying too hard for a kind of Red Balloon feel, the short is nevertheless a wonderful chance to look at things in the most simple light, without a multitude of emotions and thoughts, about nothing more complicated than a moth looking for light, a lonely soul looking for love. Well shot, the short loves to play with light and especially with dark, which can, however, at times make it very difficult to see but audiences will still see what they need to. Dainty music guides the moth and viewer’s emotions through the quest, a slight smile tickling their faces as they read the words etched across the screen, The End.
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Reviewed films were randomly selected from the hundreds of entries to the 2009 DC Shorts Film Festival. The reviews are written by Bryan Koenig, an intern with an interest in film review and journalism. The opinions expressed are his own, and not that of the independent judging panel, the DC Shorts Film Festival staff, or the staff and Board of the DC Film Alliance.
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