Bloodrop - Vimeo Short Film

Title - Bloodrop

Director - Alexei Popogrebsky

Year - 2012

Running Time - 06:37

Bloodrop is a very surreal film of a man who closes his windows to stop the wind from a passing by train from blowing all of his belongings everywhere. He picks up some of his belongings that fell and notices a black envelop containing a picture of him as if it was taken at the second he picked the picture up. He looks into the background at the picture he has on his wall and looks into it, revealing another world and he climbs through the frame into this world. A lady in the room sees him and hides herself behind the patio doors, avoiding the man. He starts acting crazy and tries to sit down, making the chair turn 2D. He then realises that anything he touches becomes 2D and he turns most of the room like this. He then sees the train coming again in his world and he grabs the lady and folding her up and throws her into his world as he follows. he jumps through and as he jumps through the frame, the frame crashes to the ground. The camera then zooms out from the man and the lady sitting with each other in his world to revealed another picture frame with them sat inside it before the credits begin to roll.

I thought that the idea of this film was very good, looking into different dimensions and each dimension being a different world. The film was also created in 2D and 3D, playing further with the dimensions. Unfortunately, I was only able to watch the film in 2D, but whilst watching it, I could see where many of the 3D elements would have looked very good, for example, when the man looked through the picture frame. 

I thought that the minimal use of dialogue worked very well, having no words spoken at all apart from at the end of the film when the man says 'Oh'. The story is told very well without the dialogue and doesn't need it, 

I also liked the way that the music was used in the film. The music got very uptempo when the exciting parts of the film were happening, for example when the train was coming and when the man was acting like a monkey in the white room, and I thought this worked very well to keep the passing of the film very good. 

Overall, I thought the film was very well made and when I am able to find some glasses to watch it in 3D, I will go back and watch it again to compare the 2D and 3D versions.  

Video URL - https://vimeo.com/28786762