Dear Los Angeles… October || California Short Film
Experimental short film. Works from this series have already been accepted to 2 film festivals. New pieces will be published every Tuesday, so check out our playlist of all works published so far, or CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL.
Part 3 of 5 in a series of experimental video pieces, as part of an ode to Los Angeles.
In the beginning, there was darkness. Then, a hum, followed by a million lights, and it was like an invisible curtain lifted. And the world was right there, right at my fingertips, and it was my stage, my stage to play and act upon. But I was scared for if I made the wrong move, then the world would always see me as nothing more than a fool, and I wanted the world to know me. I wanted the world to know the real me and not the masks that I could have worn, and I opened my heart. My dreams slipped out, and they shined so brightly against the black. But then some of my dreams disappeared, swallowed by invisible hands that then wrote their name upon my dreams as if they had come from them and not me, and that almost made me fall away from this wonder, broken by such cruelty. They were my dreams. They were mine, and I released them out into the wild. And they were devoured, but I had to try. I had to still try for if I fell back into shadow, the world would not know me, and I would be alone. And nobody would know about the voices that spoke to me or the movies that played out in my head or the music dancing across my soul, but I learned a harsh lesson. Trust was as delicate as the web itself, but I’ve the mastered the game. And I think that the world will notice me.