Catching Fireflies

Mar 28, 2015

0h 19m

★ 8.0

"Please tell me more about the fireflies."

Overview

A little girl attempts to escape the rigors and misfortunes of the ghetto through the power of her mystical imagination while simultaneously trying to protect the bond with her addict mother.

Genres

Drama

Fantasy

Production Companies

Shattered Images Films

London Flair PR

ABS Payroll & Production Accounting Services

Catching Fireflies Trailers

Cast

Isabella

Gianna Gomez

Sofia

Carlotta Bosch

Elijah

Stephen 'tWitch' Boss

Aurora

Eugenia Care

Bohuslav

Michael Edelstein

Juan

Francisco Ovalle

Gabriel

Neto DePaula Pimenta

Aerial Fairy

Elle Carpenter

Julien Cesario

Short film produced by the BBC about JG Ballard's Crash. “The film was a product of the most experimental, darkest phase of Ballard’s career. It was an era of psychological blowback from the sudden, shocking death of his wife in 1964, an era that had produced the cut-up ‘condensed novels’ of Atrocity plus a series of strange collages and ‘advertisers’ announcements. After Freud’s exploration within the psyche it is now the outer world of reality which must be quantified and eroticised. Later there were further literary experiments, concrete poems and ‘impressionistic’ film reviews, and an aborted multimedia theatrical play based around car crashes. After that came an actual gallery exhibition of crashed cars, replete with strippers and the drunken destruction of the ‘exhibits’ by an enraged audience.” (from: http://aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh.blogspot.de/2013/01/short-film-adaptation-of-jg-ballards.html)

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