Sublime sadness
Filmmaker Liam Higgins collaborates with Toronto-based ambient composer Alaskan Tapes to create an excruciatingly beautiful film about loss.
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Credits
powered by
- Director Martin Klapperbein
- Editing Outsider Editorial/Toronto
- Color Artjail/Canada
- Creative Director/DP/Writer Liam Higgins
- Editor Michael Barker
- Producer Kayan Choi
- Colorist Clinton Homuth
- VFX Vitaliy Havrylyuk
- Sound Designer Alex Gluch
- Composer Brady Kendall
Credits
powered by
- Director Martin Klapperbein
- Editing Outsider Editorial/Toronto
- Color Artjail/Canada
- Creative Director/DP/Writer Liam Higgins
- Editor Michael Barker
- Producer Kayan Choi
- Colorist Clinton Homuth
- VFX Vitaliy Havrylyuk
- Sound Designer Alex Gluch
- Composer Brady Kendall
Is it rain or tears that fall on a man’s face as he wakes to memories he’d rather forget? A flickering TV screen shows family home movies that hint at lost love. Barefoot, the man walks into a church, he seems to encounter a ghost of a little girl, his tears fall like confetti.
Directed by Martin Klapperbein with gorgeous cinematography from the film’s writer, Liam Higgins, this beautiful short, titled Wake, dramatises a man's experience of the aftermath of losing his wife and soon-to-be daughter.
Created with Last Frame Pictures and set to a delicate score by Alaskan Tapes, the film is inconclusive, the man’s grief seems insurmountable but the beauty of nature seems to be a salve. Will the calming ocean sooth him, or swallow him up?
The film was made in support of suicide prevention and crisis support services in the US and Canada, along with a link to the CAMH Discovery Fund which funds research into mental illness.
