“It was somehow trapped in between” is inspired by Na Yoon Park. An Asian woman (Barbara Park) wakes up to a chirping bird near the window. The woman stomps her foot to try to force it out, yet the bird remains, chirping away. Is the bird’s reluctance to flee communicating the woman’s own fears of taking a leap?
“…a subdued and singular collection of moments that can be interpreted in various ways.”
Taking from Banu Moghaddam (2017), the final segment is “Sometimes they dance, and sometimes they don’t.” A Latino woman (a stern Rosemary Jung) walks to the roof of a building and hangs up a couple of bed sheets to dry. The wind begins influencing the movement of the linens as if they’re dancing. Talk about turning the mundane into a performance.
Compiled by moody static shots that mostly stay back from the action, Antón Fresco’s superb cinematography retains the appearance of a home video, or perhaps long-lost footage that was recently found. Tomás Gómez Bustillo’s Museum of Fleeting Wonders is a subdued and singular collection of moments that can be interpreted in various ways. Or maybe we should just perceive these moments as what they are: life experiences that belong to the one who experienced them.
Museum of Fleeting Wonders screened at the 2020 Slamdance Film Festival.
"…captures the mundane, inexplicable, and peculiar in a sober compilation of swift 90-second scenes"
