Plastic Bag

 






Some of you may notice a short film on this blog is a little out of content considering this space is dedicated to (the written) word(s) + photography.  The art of film making and its intricacies are a subject I know little about. So, when I came across Plastic Bag, a short film by American Director Ramin Bahrani featured on Agusto, what caught my eye was the photograph. The photograph was of a meadow with a fence post in the foreground. Hanging from that fence post was a plastic bag blowing in the wind. Then I began to read the adjecent discription. The description went as follows: 

 "...traces the epic, existential journey of a plastic bag (voiced by Werner Herzog) searching for its lost maker, the woman who took it home from the store and eventually discarded it. Along the way, it encounters strange creatures, experiences love in the sky, grieves the loss of its beloved maker, and tries to grasp its purpose in the world.In the end, the wayward plastic bag wafts its way to the ocean, into the tides, and out into the Pacific Ocean trash vortex — a promised nirvana where it will settle among its own kind and gradually let the memories of its maker slip away."

 It really captures the heart of personification in the absurd - a plastic bag. And I cried. What a beautiful story.

Credits:  here for Future States, a series of film shorts. Each explores the filmmaker's vision of what the American society will be in the future, implementing social issues with tingles of thought provoking explorations.