DC Shorts Blog
Review: “WALLS”
Director: Emerie Snyder
Running Time: 13 minutes
Genre: Drama
Director Emerie Snyder’s Walls may be filmed in black and white but there is nothing two dimensional or polar about it. A conversation between a woman and a self professed hobo waiting for a subway train, the short is layered in a lyrical rhythm that casts a whole spectrum of insight into the colorless world.
While at times punctuated by a shaky camera, the well edited sound effects and exceptional dialogue are what make the short existential yet very, very real to audiences. Philosophy for the subway passenger, Walls manages to delve into the nature of the universe without ever going over the audience’s head, staying firmly rooted in reality and a conversation that one could easily see playing out in real life. Perhaps a little confusing at first, once the audience catches on to what the film is trying to do, they will find themselves on the very same subway platform as the characters.
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Reviewed films were randomly selected from the hundreds of entries to the 2009 DC Shorts Film Festival. The reviews are written by Bryan Koenig, an intern with an interest in film review and journalism. The opinions expressed are his own, and not that of the independent judging panel, the DC Shorts Film Festival staff, or the staff and Board of the DC Film Alliance.
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