PAPARAZZA | Omeleto
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- A photographer becomes a paparraza.
PAPARAZZA is used with permission from Aurora Fearnley. Learn more at littlenorthern....
Camilla is a photographer currently freelancing on the celebrity candid circuit, grabbing pictures of movie and music stars that she can sell to tabloids and other entertainment news outlets. She wants more for herself as an artist, but she also has taken on the financial and emotional responsibility of helping her sister Esme get the treatment she needs to treat her long-term eating disorder. So Camilla needs to keep freelancing as a paparazzi photographer to pay the growing number of bills.
When Esme's outpatient facility tells Camilla that she's late on payments, Camilla awkwardly calls in a favor for a tip and gets one: a prominent pop star has entered a private rehab, and the first pics will command a large amount of money. Camilla goes in pursuit of the now reclusive singer but is faced with an ethical and moral dilemma.
Written and directed by Aurora Fearnley, this short drama begins with a crackle and snap of glamour, as a young star descends onto the front steps of a hotel entrance amid a halo of beauty and privilege and a battalion of camera flashes and snaps. Captured with grandly sweeping camera movements of old Hollywood, the focus on the star's appearance nimbly shifts onto one of the photographers in the pack, a scrappy-looking young woman snapping away, the only female amidst a male-dominated profession. She accidentally gets a snap of the young star's exposed breast, but deletes it, foregoing what would likely be a well-paid shot in consideration for the girl's age and situation.
That opening sequence sets up both a character and situation that is thoroughly challenged in a carefully constructed script, which unspools with deft direction and storytelling. As expected from a narrative about a photographer, the film has a light-filled naturalistic visual and rhythm that reflects the off-hand energy of Camilla's work, but the storytelling is especially impressive in how it explores an unusual level of intellectual, moral and emotional inquiry, especially for a short film.
As Camilla grapples with one hard situation after another -- and not always gracefully -- the story interrogates notions of sexual currency, celebrity, fame, privilege, feminism, exploitative media culture and particularly the relationship between Esme's anorexia and the images that Camilla now takes. These currents intersect in fascinating ways in the story, but they also make Camilla's choices as a character increasingly hard.
This is heady territory, but the film always remains emotionally engaging, thanks to an unwavering focus on a strongly delineated character, played beautifully by actor Sian Hill. As Camilla, she is simultaneously tough, loving, fierce, loyal and intelligent. She is also growing overwhelmed by the responsibility to her sister Esme, which drives her to grasp at a golden opportunity -- but it may finally compromise her morally.
Well-crafted, richly drawn and excellently written, PAPARAZZA is simultaneously a story of a sister who will do anything to help her sibling, an artist trapped in the merciless dictates of her job and a woman who must face her complicity in oppression. Its masterful final scene is both an unwitting confrontation, not just of a character about to achieve her objective, but of a woman facing the limits of her moral compass. Camilla must train her lens and her way of seeing not just on the stars she stalks, but on herself -- and discovers she may not like what she finds.
Thank you everyone for watching and commenting. So great to see the film connecting with people. I'm the director and happy to answer any questions about the film.
the production quality looks so top notch, when are you planning on making a feature film?
E un film care pare inspirat din realitate. E bazat pe fapte reale?
L Movie!!!! TRASH, TF??
No matter how crappy your life is at the moment, don't go out of your way to harm others. We all go through troubled times, so remember " do unto others as you would want them to do to you "
"Today you, tomorrow me."
@@normandy2501 Yes,
also known as, do harm to others before they harm you?
@@jime6739 No .. if no one is intending to harm you why would you choose to harm them
I would love to live in a world where this is true.
The dark side of it all. Fame, pictures, and both photographer and celebrity living off the two.
symbiotic relationship
@Gangari TheWanderer it's using each other rest hurting or not is secondary first is dependency for money/living comes which keep them together
Perfectly stated.
The unfortunate thing is there is that if you won't do it there is always someone else who will, and they are thinking exactly the same thing. Everyone's moral compass points a different direction.
Assuming of course, one has a moral compass.......
This is a very good psychological study of real life v. morality. Camilla is each and everyone of us.
Wow. What a world. Hunter, Hunted and bystander whose starving themselves to look like the Hunted and attract the attention of the Hunter...
WOW...that was DEEP!!! You must be something.
Great and thoughtful response....love it;)
Please break this down simpler for me.
@the one and only xx Thanks! I’m gonna watch it again and have what you said sit behind my mind as I go. Thanks again!
@5:05- Love the segue from shaking camera to shaking cocktail.
The moral delimna depicted beautifully and forcefully
Very hard hitting as ever
I like this one! Simple yet impactful!
'Impactful' is not a word. The word you're looking for is 'effective'.
Another story which tells us what we already know too well. That life sucks!
@Marvin Pineda Really? Cause what I get from this story is only pain, strugling, and suffering. Like there's no end to her misery.
Capitalism is what sucks. What we see in this short film is an example of people being forced to find a way to survive under a system that will toss you aside if you don't have any value or find something to exploit, and usually morality is sacrificed in exchange for a livelihood. There's no compassion for your hardship and many people live their lives thinking this is what life inherently is but it's not.
@@Kizarat Which in the end, made life sucks.
I love life!
Like sucks only if you're poor and sick
Loved the last sound!
She took the photo. Now that girl will be even more upset
WOW She got the story AND the shot. great short
Some people have morals . . . even when they are up against it . . . thank goodness . . .
money is very critical tool in human life
It’s a resource, but people treat it like a God,. It does make life easier, but not always guarantees real happiness.
@@FupaDoncic yes without life becoming easier the happiness can't either since the society human lives in consider money based items only mark for happiness
@@sainiamarjeet that’s perspective, many rich people and silver spoon kids still feel empty and fall off in bad ways. Not to get religious as I am not a follower, but the Buddha’s teachings show it. Purpose and contentment are the real key to happiness. Don’t get me wrong I would the tool of money to make me worry less. But Humbleness is my first goal.
@@FupaDoncic the other perspective if u see is living for oneself is selfish living and if God is in every human than serving the humanity is service to God by using this tool/money to help create opportunities for other humans rise in in thr life since they r less previlaged.
I don’t understand why the guy just didn’t take her up on her offer. He definitely dropped the ball on that one
Because…. he is a
*good man* ? Ever
heard of one? They
are rare but do exist
Your testicles are showing Jason. Not a good look........
I counted five stories in those 16-odd minutes. That's nothing to sniff at.
But I do guess, as as been mentioned in another comment or two, that the bottom line is that, in the words of Zach'ry o' the Valleysmen from "Cloud Atlas", "Life ain't no smilesome yarny. Nay." The cliche goes "everyone's fighting a battle you know nothing about," but there can't be many such cliches so pregnant with truth.
That was an awesome short film. I could have followed it for another eighty minutes to a more resolute conclusion. That being said, there's a lot of value in the absence of that resolution. It made it all feel more real.
Human beings dark and good emotions portrait so perfectly!
Finally, a story I understand.
Loved it, great acting as usual.
In each of these shorts I expect a rod sirling monologue to put a cherry on top.
THEY CALL THAT ACLASS ACT!!
You thought she found her morels...and then you hear the shutter on the camera..desperate trumps morels...
I've never tasted one, but I have heard that morels are delicious!
Morals on the other hand ...
(It's OK. I know: English spelling is hard.)
@@RUclipsallowedmynametobestolen It's neither hard nor soft....it's difficult, Mr Ed
Take the damn picture!
omg what happened to your nose
Awesome Short. She should have sold both pictures 😂
Dyed hair = protagonist
Common cliche.
I real life usually some who doesn't know themselves
I think it looks really cool. Boomers love to say this as they had no courage to express themselves.
@@oskahuxley6322 So, what are you personally trying to express by dying your hair?
@@andriyshapovalov8886 I see your point, maybe it isn't an idea specifically. If that is the way you want to be seen then I suppose what you want to express is just that sense of visual self. Does this make sense at all? Perhaps its just expressing non conformity which I think we all can celebrate. It could be argued that the opposite of this is the 15 or so prescribed hair styles in North Korea. I'm sort of exploring the idea in my head as I'm writing this so I apologise if this is garbled. I'm not sure why my previous comment was so drastic, might have been something to do with drinking last night. Anyway I know this argument needs an awful lot more refinement for it to be barely coherent, hopefully we can all be adults as I think their is a point about visual self expression to be made.
@@oskahuxley6322 Its not a secret, but not a common knowledge either, that state of your hair has a spiritual significance.
So, any drastic changes to your hair style is more likely than not due to some deeper personality changes. Some are quite obvious like shaving your head after a loss, tragedy or in an attempt to 'leave the mundane world', but most are hidden under 'being free' or cool or artistic and such.
It is not common in our modern world grow up with good introspective habits to see why we do things we do and where our desire to be different and identifications coming from. It's not that easy to see ourself for most of us as well.
On a subtle level your hair and it's condition also works other way around, as a spiritual/psychic shield.
It's somewhat simplified, but traditionally for most of men hair stile is shorter to protect their masculine aspects and for women longer and neat to protect their feminine aspects.
There is bigger forces at play here than boomers an millennials ;)
Changing you hair for the purpose to be in military or part of religious or celebrity community is just the way to exploit the phenomena...
So what is important about all of this is that we need to learn about our personal inner world, so that we know ourselves and why we actually do things we do.
Unfortunately there's a lot of rubbish out there, claiming to be 'the way'.
1:18 to 1:52. What the hell did he say?
i really enjoyed the complexities of the film- was kinda let down by the ambiguous ending. Its like no one has a specific POV anymore.
What if the specific POV is that life is complicated, full of grays (rather than black and white), and conflicting feelings and needs, and ambiguity?
@@RUclipsallowedmynametobestolen the entire film was complexities, seems like leaving it to the viewer is increasingly popular. i would just like to see more rhings crafted to a specific vision/ statement on the part of the filmmaker. explore the fallout based on specific choices.
Pa pa Paparazzi Paparazzi
La La Lady Gaga
The lady gaga song remixed by Kim Dracula keeps replaying in my head
Fade to black ending, same as the final Sopranos episode.
Very close to perfection❤
A great film, very watchable with an interesting message :)
Every story is better than the previous one!
Not really. They just vary. Some are comedy, some are drama, some are just plain weird.
@@cahidijoyoraharjo7833 We Just have different tastes :)
@@shamsh5634 are you friend of rumi?
How did we get where we are? This movie has the answer.. just remember you wanted the question answered.
Nice ending.
Why the shutter click at the end?
Wise choice😌
People are just people.
Amazing
I would have taken the shot;)
She did take the shot. At the end, the click of the camera.
Fantastic, well done. x
To the person who is reading this even though I don't know you have an amazing life from lottie 💜😘👑
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Thank you, Lottie, and I hope the same for you as well. 💖💖💖
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Right back atcha😉😊
So, did she take a hard decision and take the picture...?
Pretty sure that's what the click at the end meant, but of course with most of these shorts, you can leave it to your imagine.
@@LordKohaegan There's very little room to imagine anything after the click, actually. I mean what else would she do with that click? Taking a picture of a tree?
@@cahidijoyoraharjo7833 To me she took the pic. But maybe she lowered the camera and pressed the button. Kind of like how people lower guns in movies right before they shoot.
I think she took a picture of the ground.
i think she took a selfie as an act of introspection
does she respect her privacy?
Anyone know the name of the red head?
“Don’t go to school” ~ Boyinaband
Stop putting words in people's mouth please, he never said that.
@@CommentRodent lol prove it
@@Rotavas Context in a quote is extremely important. Where did you get the quote from? The only time I've ever heard him talk about school is that music video which he never said that in. Let's do this argument more effectively: how about you prove to me when he said it?
@@CommentRodent I posted this on a whim. kinda dont care
To me, the story doesn’t really hang together. But my god, Camilla is cute.
the main character is kind of a tool
I dont get it, who bruised the girl’s face?
It's not perfectly clear to me either, but I think she did that to herself, to frame her boyfriend. But then she followed her conscience.
@@RUclipsallowedmynametobestolen I don’t think you can give yourself a black eye! She’s in a mental hospital, I would hardly believe her version of things…
@@PtolemyXVII Good points.
@@RUclipsallowedmynametobestolen yeah I also think that she did that to herself and almost got her boyfriend arrested. That's why in the end she took the phone to call and apologize.
So having a magazine of girls is mental issue now?
She has an eating disorder and when being treated the thin models can trigger some.
Way too short. Good film nonetheless.
What?
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This reminds me of roscoe wetsuit
another indecipherable British accent
English
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This is why men are paid more.
for lack of privacy, compassion and human decency? lmao