Daria-Andreea Lupu

It’s a sleepover like any other when Florence asks her best friend, Ruby, to perform a eulogy in her honour. What starts off as harmless play-pretend soon morphs into a realisation of Florence’s twisted fetishisation of death. Throughout staged memorials, grieving speeches, and crime scene replications, Ruby’s suppressed desires for Florence begin to crystallise as Florence continues to fall deeper and deeper into her manic obsession.

This experimental short film explores the reconstruction and recollection of traumatic events through fragmented memories, using a non-linear narrative and a layered visual approach. The film emphasizes the penetration of montage, with an anarchic and chaotic tone that reflects both fun and disorder. The film brings to life concerns about how a woman moves, how she speaks, dreams, and how she is stripped of her inherent qualities by a society which continues to sexualize and harmfully perceive her. It visualizes a recollection of thoughts, dreams and memories, symbolically intertwining the characters experiences of their conscious with their subconscious.