The Verisimilitude Effect
Maddie Maitland
Shannon Chlistovsky
Canada, 2015, 6 min.
In English.
This film is family friendly.
Reality is directly defined as the state of things as they actually exist. But when they only appear as they exist, it is referred to as a different concept. The Verisimilitude Effect. As this is so rare, it only haunts one peculiar girl. But is it the verisimilitude, that makes this girl peculiar, or is it the fact that she wanders too far?
Director's Statement
Everybody lives within a similar reality. This is what we think. But for one girl, an everlasting illusion is her reality. All she knows are small hallucinations combined to form an alteration of her reality. I am by most, defined as a normal young woman. But at times, it feels that I drift away from normal society. As if my presence walks along the rim of another world, while my conscience stays planted into normal living. And as much as I love my life, there are some things that I wish became illusions and that I could hallucinate better things.
Category: Experimental.
Themes: Women, World Cinema.
Saturday, April 25
The Screening Room
12:00pm
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