Ophelia from Cecile Davis & Floofie Films on Vimeo, text from site:
Filmed in the Neck District, to the music Tore My Heart by Oona. This film was based on the following speech from Shakespeare’s Hamlet:
There is a willow grows aslant a brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
There with fantastic garlands did she come
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples
That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,
But our cold maids do dead men’s fingers call them:
There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke;
When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide;
And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up:
Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes;
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a creature native and indued
Unto that element: but long it could not be
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pull’d the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death.
(William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Act 4, Scene 7)




Cecile
xoxo
Mar 31, 2010 @ 11:08 AM