Mathilda (2014)

 

Synopsis

Mathilda is a painter who lives a lonely life in a heartless modern society.  She survives each day, barely making enough money to pay for monthly rent.  She lives each day oppressing the fear of not knowing if her future will be any better.

 

Summary

Mathilda has no house.  She rents out of a storage/office and lives there as well as working there.  Although the office building is not fit for a real living situation, it is barely enough for sleeping, lightly cooking, as well as making a living using her skills to operate on people.  The space is also enough for her to springs forth her oppressed stress and fear through making furniture and painting.  She continuously develops her future and direction of her life.  Unmatched with her own desires, Mathilda is forced to continue her side job in order to make a living.  She also continues her painting works even though she has no satisfying outcomes.  Mathilda’s life and future seems as though it will continue in this fashion and will never get any better.  Mathilda’s abstract painting may be a reflection of the distressed modern people that could never be free from the frame of the modern society is locked away in this frame.

 

Mathilda (2014, short film 34:14)

 

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