GOOD RIDDANCE - a bertie gilbert film (2019)
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- Опубликовано: 24 ноя 2019
- Shot on The Isle of Skye, and produced for Channel 4's Random Acts.
Witness a reluctant duet between a young woman and her recently deceased pet Guinea Pig. An emotional, belligerent, fantastical gallop through pet heaven. Fun!
Written & Directed by
Bertie Gilbert - / bertieegilbert
Cinematography
Ciaran O’brien - / ciaranobriendop
Producer
Bill Milner - / billmilner
Starring
Debris Stevenson - debrisstevenson.co.uk/
Tanaya Martin-Clarke - / ice_coldweather
Composer
Jocelyn Campbell -
Production designer/prop maker
Deborah Milner - / debmilner_art
Art Director
Aimee Meek - / ameekie
Movement director
Tanaya Martin-Clarke
Co-movement director
Debris Stevenson
Location manager
Joanie Mackinnon
Focus puller
Elisa Spigariol - / doyouknowellie
2nd AC
Aidan Bryan - / aidan_bryan1
Editor
Bertie Gilbert
Colour grade
Ciaran O’brien
Commissioning editor
Catherine Bray - catherinebray?lan...
Commissioning assistant
Jake Cunningham - / jakehcunningham
Special Thanks
Kate Staddon
Abigail Millar
Isabelle Sweetland
John Muir Trust
Joe Fallover
Sim Milner
Haddon PR
The Mackinnon Family
Elgol Village Hall
Lesley Fairley
Matthew Beard
Savannah Brown 
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the G-Force sequel looks great !
Zaina Soliman FOR FUCK SAKE
PET THEORY: Good Riddance and the music video for Dodie's, "You," are part of an overarching "Big Head Music Video" trilogy that has yet to have its finale
He's helping Tom Rosenthal film his music video ...
Maybe KickthePJ could finish the trilogy
Shia LaBeouf Live is the finale
Joe for Broke Films the big head cinematic universe. the BHCU
AND BERTIE RISES FROM THE DEAD WITH DRAMATIC ORGAN MUSIC
it's hard to let go :(
Mary Shuk it do be like that :-(
Too many things: The no-prescense anymore, the anxiety of the situation, the deny, the guilt, the will of going to and the acceptance of reality and stability. That's why Bertie's work it's so good: you can make multiple interpretations, and that's just a characteristic of art!
Andrea Dulko :’)
Well that was a trip and a half
Is this what berties mind looks like??
I sure hope so
MyChemical PanicBoy yes but less sunny
all the dislikes are from hamsters that did not pass the casting
Albina Mustafina I’LL HAVE YOU KNOW IT IS A GUINEA PIG (and yes)
@@BertieGilbert1
That's why they didn't get the part, silly.
I just love the lighting in this,the daylight feels bright and raw and vulnerable but it also has this atmosphere that is accepting and hopeful. The dissonance in the music with the lovely strings in the middle really captures the confusion and the frustration of grief. I also really like how it is the hand of the one that she is grieving that leads her back into acceptance. The whole thing really has a cyclical feel, like this isn’t one linear process but something you constantly go through in life, days that are worse and where it’s harder to accept they are gone and days where it feels easier. Really nice stuff!
thank you so much for your kind words! glad it resonated with you!
I am clearly not smart enough for whatever this was.
its fine neither am i
it's ultimately just a pretty dance in a pretty location with pretty music! i've got my version of events, themes and narrative elements baked into it - but ultimately whatever someone takes from it is valid. just a bit of fun, there's no pressure to read into it x
@@BertieGilbert1 I absolutely loved it! I'm new and stumbled on your channel through pj and I'm glad I did!
Fully was not expecting a serious response on my joke comment.
Real-talk: I hope you always get to make whatever weird creative visions you have come to life. It's such an incredible luxury to be strange in this world.
i love the reoccurring theme of the reaching out and holding hands, a beautiful raw image that for me represents holding on instead of letting go. an incredible piece of artwork that puts grief into a powerful physical form
really love this interpretation of it, it's just such a good portrayal of grief 👌
Some real Midsommar vibes going on here and I love it
Alexandra Callis daytime is creepy!
my guinea pig died recently so this his too deep i’m suing
did you get transported to a surreal dreamland and do interpretative dance with it ? asking for a friend
same this freaked me out because my guinea pig died a couple weeks ago-
I dont know why but that sound effect of the "thwump" kind of like something rushing up a hoover was so fitting to the whole thing.
...another turning point a fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go
i’m too sober for this
Sometimes the way we act in the small things is a representation of the big things going on, I feel like the girl is struggling so much with the hamster because there has been a bigger loss in her life she hasn't let go of, maybe a boyfriend, a father, a friend I'm realizing more and more how art is subjective and how you interpret it reflects who you are and what you are going through
Evalyn Grieves love this take!
@@BertieGilbert1 Aw so happy I decided to comment, this was so creatively inspiring to me, keep it up, your response means so much to me🧡
the only type of furry content i can watch
(kidding this is shot really beautifully n i love it very much)
sofske I KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN (thank u)
Watching this at 2am kinda feels like I'm losing my mind but something tells me it would have made a lot less sense in daylight
It's day time here and it's still weird but great
Srishti Sinha this film is very strange at all times of the day
Srishti Sinha this film is very strange at all times of the day
beautiful work Bertie. Could be interpreted many ways but I love the ambiguity of it.
this is what taking flu medicine feels like
1) I really read the director of cinematography as Conan O'brien at first and had a mini heart-attack
2) Please don't let me go anywhere near this video when (if?) my cats ever die
I was going to leave my comment at those two points but I just made the connection that 3) I have a reoccurring nightmare where I somehow find myself responsible for a smaller pet like a fish, gecko, or hamster and they're nightmares because I really don't know how to take care of these pets so theres always like, not enough water in the fishbowl or something. I always feel a great sense of relief however when I wake up and realize its no longer my problem,no poor little animal's lives are in my hands. And after rereading the title, "Good Riddance", I now associate this piece with those dreams. Can't wait to see what you do next Bertie :)
what an absolutely beautiful compelling piece!! wonderful choreography compliments the very clever writing so well! photography and lighting was just so well done and the sound design was perfect! aaaah wow!! so so good!
The Stacker
@@BertieGilbert1 😊
Very simple and easy to understand but effective. I haven't seen it portrayed quite like this. Bless you and all the other hard workers that made this happen
Alia McBride what a lovely kind comment. thank you :-)
this is gorgeous omg and the way dance and music was used in this is incredible I love it so much oh my gosh
I'm so confused
I can’t say this did anything for me but I love that you are creating what you want to create. It’s beautiful to see people’s creativity and talent shared like this. Beautifully shot and edited!
This is beautiful. Bertie, I know all too well what it feels like to be guinea pig.
All I can describe it as is a surrealist ballet
sounds about right!
grief really makes you do some weird things, huh
PurpleFinch YEP
my childhood pet passed earlier this year, and of all the hard things i've ever gone through this has been the strangest. this film has really resonated with the process of emotions i've gone through since. brilliant x
This was slightly confusing and disturbing, but I enjoyed it all the same
lol a pineapple i’m glad!
okay but the music? so delightful and just fit beautifully *chefs kiss*
and i added that to my "absolutely best films ever" playlist. i surprised myself.
the most strangely beautiful film
My guinea pig Xander died early this year, I had to get him put down, and I never worked through/dealt with any of those emotions, I had a lot going on at the time, so you better believe this made me cry. Beautiful film, Bertie. I'm in a very large pain.
Ellen Wolfe hope we did xander proud. Thank you for your comment x
I just watched a hamster get danced at so hard it ended up on the floor.
Absolutely loved the scoring for this!
Wonderful. Everything is perfectly balanced, aggressively subtle, yet calm. Loved it. Congratulations.
Oh boy the last scene made me so sad in a anxious kind of way. Like to me the whole opening with a pet dying, someone you love, but the person smiles, kiiinda gives this 'x person should feel y way' but they fail but they DO manage to perform some manner of emotion. Then you get this beautiful dance and you see a connection between them two, but then at the end? The sort of puppet like control of the other one, like they're not participating anymore. Oh OH. Really nice, I hope you make more work ^^
I'll be honest I have no idea what's going on
I teared up during this, and not because I could relate to losing a pet or anything of the likes.
I've been watching your stuff for... agh, I don't know, maybe a year already? Either way, I've known you before this so it wasn't just "a wow, this guy is really good at making short films, how didn't I find him sooner?" type of thing. You see, even though I'm nowhere near having to choose a career path I've been questioning it a lot lately because doing something with drawing or animating doesn't seem as appealing as it used to.
So I've been entertaining thoughts of going into film, and I think if it had not been for your channel, I would've never thought of that idea. But even then it's sort of alienating because my brother is in film school already, and I don't want to take his thing away and make it my own, because drawing has always been my thing and changing that feels like I'm doing something wrong.
Joker made me tear up more than once, stare in awe, ect. Bertie's films (specifically Let it Be and Playground) always amazed me and made me think, "I want to make something like this when I grow up" more than once but I had never _really_ thought about it before, because I thought I'd do something in drawing. Maybe I just cry easily, or get super sentimental, but still it feels very... it's very hard to describe, but looking at something that has the exact qualities that effect me (literally, the music, the symbolism, the photography, EVERYTHING) really just gets to me. And it was amplified a thousand times because of what I've been worried about considering my future.
Anyways, I know you'll probably never see this but I just wanted to thank you. I feel like questioning what I'm going to do is kinda necessary in life. Oh, and thanks to all the people that helped you make this. And all your other short films. It wouldn't be possible without any of them either! So thank you to you and the crew members for making me question things and giving me something to look up to in a way, and thank you for making these!
Anyways, thanks for reading my word vomit lmao, sorry I rambled but getting this out into writing felt a bit necessary. I know I'm super lucky to get to choose my career path, and I know that I really don't have to worry about it for a long time, but still; oh, and I know I'm probably over reacting a lot lol. anyways like i said sorry this is so long so thanks for reading!!
What an oddly wonderful film! Love how well all the pieces--choreography, cinematography, wardrobe(and more)--fit together. Well done, Bertie!
you are doing such good things, bertie. happy screenwriting :)
i love this so much? and i really did not expect to, but here i am
I'm just imagining the lone hiker whose been searching for meaning for days out on the moors coming accross this scene and I... I mean... 😂
It left me with something. I still don’t know with what, but it definitely left me with something.
this is so insanely beautiful and deep but the color grading is so prominent that it tends to take away from the rawness
I loved the use of the music in this over all this was amazing, I really enjoyed it.
simultaneously peaceful and STRESSFUL at all times !! amazing
this was so so beautiful
I'll say on this channel this time--i can't believe how absolutely stunning and heartbreaking this film w a giant guinea pig head is, but I've been left in inexplicable tears so i gotta commend you and everyone else involved on this incredible job 🖤✨
bertie, this is such a beautiful narrative ! the range of expressions from the main character really make the storytelling of this come alive
Waited so freaking long! So worth it!!!!
yes bertie yes
I see a theme of the 5 stages of grief? But displayed through dance! Love it such a lovely little film :D
my brain: *gr-*
me: don’t do it-
my brain: *gree-*
me: *no*
my brain: *green day.*
The first thing I watched on a Tuesday morning. This will be a splendid day. Thank you.
no, thank YOU mickeleh!
That was an experience, thank you Bertie
my pleasure, glad you got something from it!
This looks beautiful, different from what i expected but brilliant nonetheless
Christian thank you Christian :-)
Stunning bit of film x
i recently lost my pet rat
rewatching this helped me learn to let go
Thank you bertie x
this was a real treat thank you bertie !!!
beautiful as always
no one:
bertie: *makes god tier short films*
pretty much lol
Why is this just an emotional rollercoaster? This is amazing!
This is sick! The visuals are so eerily beautiful + the music accompanies that feeling PERFECTLY! Great work as always!
thanks so much! glad you liked it x
you never fail to surprise me.
bert you've done it again getting me all emotional and shit
I know most people are saying it's about grief and I think that's also part of it , but I feel like there's a lot about outgrowing childhood ? And sort of trying to be stable being an adult whilst still cherishing your inner child
this was my initial pitch! many rush into adulthood, desperate to burn everything that came before. it’s ultimately about a relationship coming to an end and the struggles of letting go. could be letting go of a friend, a pet or of your own past! lots of angles are valid x
when i grow up i want to be like bertie gilbert
thebanterloon you really don’t
this is already so good ahh
ooh what a lovely little gift
beautifully weird, as always. stunning
Intriguing, I love this piece of work. Very thought-provoking.
f$&# you for making me tear up. I get the timeline, and it always is about looking back. damn...man.. I love it
gilbert is back again
So fricken good
amazing!
Who are you voting for? I am covering the Kensington count for the papers. Dm me!!!!
I freaked when I saw the notification, thank you for this wonderful content Bertie
when I read the title I first thought of the green day song, Good Riddance (Time of your Life) so I understood it as they were having the time of their (the hamsters) life
YES YEEEEEEES
this is beautiful
At the end is hard to say goodbye, but you have to...
that true
This came out the week after my guinea pig died while I was away at school for film with a minor in dance?? And I somehow missed it in my subscription box??
Can't tell if the title is ironic, all I know is it's beautifully shot and choreographed
Paddy Hunn it is somewhat! is saying good riddance healthy? is it right to coldly say goodbye and cut off relationships with no remorse?
This is inspiring something that I'm working on. What kind of camera did you use?
I demand bloopers.
Fun work!
Yeah this is the mood
that was really beautiful.
the shot with the drop down walls was cool. slap some music on it and it has a purpose. i demand narrative bertiebertg
Awww I love Skye so much
What an interesting piece. An intense divergence from what we have seen before.
a time of your life :)
Yee!!
i tried to make a fleabag pun and failed
I recently lost a small pet, and honestly people seem to disregard how much it hurts. It seems to be that losing a cat or a dog is considered to be like losing a family member, but with small pets , that you keep in cages and tanks, people are less likely to sympathise with you. I really felt this, absolutely beautiful.
Stunning. I want to live in this video
Christina Chic SAME! pet heaven is wonderful this time of year
Haha it is! I guess “live” was not the right word.
Reminds me a Saucerful of secrets !