Fugue
Director: Steven Adam Renkovish
Cast: Brittany Renee Smith
“Fugue”, a film by Steven Adam Renkovish, is a heartbreaking story of love, loss and a young woman’s journey into her own psyche as she struggles to find peace in the wake of a loved one’s tragic demise.
One of the most important themes in Lilith’s journey becomes clearly evident when one considers the meaning of the word “fugue” and how intimately this word entwines itself with the film’s protagonist. For Lilith, fugue is a state or period of loss of awareness of one's identity, often coupled with flight from one's usual environment, associated with certain forms of hysteria.
I love the use of light in this story and how it symbolizes the character’s journey. Candles, shadows, fading twilight…his use of muted colors, and Lilith being illuminated only by the soft incandescence of candlelight, creates an aura of mystery and tension in the character that reflects metaphorically the struggle she is enduring in silence and in solitude. She is literally trapped in a fugue state…not in darkness, but not fully in the light either…and it is only when she has completely surrendered that she is shrouded in the inky darkness of night and thus relinquished from the shackles of her own suspended reality.
She’s being haunted by the memory of her lover. She’s alone in her suffering. Who has she lost? Who has disappeared, leaving her alone in cold silence? What has she wandered into in the moment that she was just beginning to find peace with his disappearance?
I am beginning to feel that Lilith is yearning not just for her vanished lover, but for something buried deep within. In her dreams/visions, she is struggling desperately to hold the essence of her soul…clinging to love…memory….a sense of connection that has been violently severed. As she disappears into the darkness, one must consider…has she surrendered to the grief and relinquished that piece of her soul? Or has her heart relinquished the pain she has clung to for so long and finally found peace?
“Fugue” is as heartbreaking as it is beautiful. Brittany Renee Smith shines in her role as Lilith, giving the character an almost child-like fragility that is entwined with a heartbreaking struggle and loneliness and an undeniably powerful love that she shares with her lost lover. Her performance, as always, is breathtaking, as is the unique story that is created by the director, Steven Adam Renkovish. His gift of creating art through the subtle use of light and shadow; silence and music and his ability to delve into the character’s psyche and weave a poignant story using only her voice and her emotions is nothing less than absolutely extraordinary. This is definitely a film that I would highly recommend.
Click on the link below to see the trailer for Fugue.
https://vimeo.com/211351364
© 2013 – 2017 Keriane Kellogg. All rights reserved.
Director: Steven Adam Renkovish
Cast: Brittany Renee Smith
“Fugue”, a film by Steven Adam Renkovish, is a heartbreaking story of love, loss and a young woman’s journey into her own psyche as she struggles to find peace in the wake of a loved one’s tragic demise.
One of the most important themes in Lilith’s journey becomes clearly evident when one considers the meaning of the word “fugue” and how intimately this word entwines itself with the film’s protagonist. For Lilith, fugue is a state or period of loss of awareness of one's identity, often coupled with flight from one's usual environment, associated with certain forms of hysteria.
I love the use of light in this story and how it symbolizes the character’s journey. Candles, shadows, fading twilight…his use of muted colors, and Lilith being illuminated only by the soft incandescence of candlelight, creates an aura of mystery and tension in the character that reflects metaphorically the struggle she is enduring in silence and in solitude. She is literally trapped in a fugue state…not in darkness, but not fully in the light either…and it is only when she has completely surrendered that she is shrouded in the inky darkness of night and thus relinquished from the shackles of her own suspended reality.
She’s being haunted by the memory of her lover. She’s alone in her suffering. Who has she lost? Who has disappeared, leaving her alone in cold silence? What has she wandered into in the moment that she was just beginning to find peace with his disappearance?
I am beginning to feel that Lilith is yearning not just for her vanished lover, but for something buried deep within. In her dreams/visions, she is struggling desperately to hold the essence of her soul…clinging to love…memory….a sense of connection that has been violently severed. As she disappears into the darkness, one must consider…has she surrendered to the grief and relinquished that piece of her soul? Or has her heart relinquished the pain she has clung to for so long and finally found peace?
“Fugue” is as heartbreaking as it is beautiful. Brittany Renee Smith shines in her role as Lilith, giving the character an almost child-like fragility that is entwined with a heartbreaking struggle and loneliness and an undeniably powerful love that she shares with her lost lover. Her performance, as always, is breathtaking, as is the unique story that is created by the director, Steven Adam Renkovish. His gift of creating art through the subtle use of light and shadow; silence and music and his ability to delve into the character’s psyche and weave a poignant story using only her voice and her emotions is nothing less than absolutely extraordinary. This is definitely a film that I would highly recommend.
Click on the link below to see the trailer for Fugue.
https://vimeo.com/211351364
© 2013 – 2017 Keriane Kellogg. All rights reserved.