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Directors : Leo Berkeley
Director Leo Berkeley's short work is a marvel of multum in parvo. This deceptively simple portrayal of a middle-aged man with a debilitating disease is an extraordinarily compressed meditation on life that considers the minutiae and gravity of all existence. As the film's subject ponders conflicting means of understanding the universe, he also grapples with his immediate environment and with his neighbours' actions. In the space of 9 minutes and 26 seconds, his musings are interwoven with evocative imagery, to poetic and ironic effect: a pretty lemon tree on his balcony, bearing bitter fruit; a vast sky and clouds reflected in the glass facade of a building whose inhabitants preen before a mirror and practice boxing. When his daughter remarks, over the phone, that his new apartment's double-glazed windows (offering insulation, and traffic-noise reduction) are "good," the man − observing a trapped insect's plight − responds, "Unless you're caught in the middle." Later, deploring the selfishness and obliviousness of other residents, he abruptly is jolted out of his self-absorption.

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