I’ll Rob Your heart 2024
Studio Faire, Nérac, France
short film (4:10 min. color, sound)
(Le Couer: French word for heart, origin of the word courage)
The myths and folklore surrounding magpies associate them with ill fortune. They are harbingers of bad luck and throughout Christianity are believed to embody the devil. Their deviant behavior places them in a category with villains. The most common mislabeled trait is their interest in shiny things. Magpies are tricksters who will stop at nothing to get the rhinestone necklace or a gold coin. What is their interest in shiny things? What is our interest in shiny things? What happens when we desire something; it taunts us like a mirage on the desert horizon. Then it gets pulled away, gone into thin air. The lure and seduction become a dream, a script that we fall in love with. In this world of shiny things, it is hard to see between what is real and what is a dream. I’ll Rob Your Heart is a reconciliation with heartbreak, for all that we long for and all that we do not get.
