You might imagine that an artistic filmmaker who travels the world often comes home with some pretty incredible b-side footage — the stuff that lands on the cutting room floor of other projects.
Filmmaker Kylian Castells returned from countless trips with exactly that and an itch to do something different with it all. The idea: collaborate with recording artist Forest Blakk and find some words worthy of painting a contextual picture. Through that, they created Breathe, a short film and poem that makes talking about death feel like a beautiful thing.
“Today I looked up how long it would take to drown,” Blakk narrates. “How long can you hold your breath before you can’t hold your breath any longer? And how long until your lungs give out and the sound that used to fill the void quiets like a mouse at midnight, searching for its piece of the pie?”
Castells calls it an “unintentional short that makes people happy even when speaking about death. Sit, breathe, enjoy.”
Editor’s Note: This is a film from Kylian Castells. Find more from Kylian on Instagram here.
