![]() Snyder also employs multiple uses of cameras as a visual motif and passive antagonist, forming an uncomfortable relationship between it and the films central character. Several techniques assist the viewers focus on specific pieces of information, like having a thugs arm holding a particularly nasty meat cleaver in the foreground of the shot framing the films villain in the background as we are quickly given information about how this mess all kicked off. Another example is an image of a beautiful woman kissing a severed head cut into the scene of our heroine delivering the coup de grace to her defeated foe the kiss of death. For example, a steel bucket of water with a single fish in it, shown several times, serves to emphasize violence and provide visual narration for certain ideas, as well as being part of the films poetry through repeating visual connection. ![]() The filmmaker will employ multiple techniques to guide the viewer through the film, including the use of visual metaphor and substitution to communicate the emotional or intellectual substance beneath the action. There is some violent action, and some graphic imagery, but this is not an exploitation piece. The film is an experiment in total visual storytelling the delivery of not only plot, but character and emotion through imagery with some support from the minimal, but, tense score. There is no dialog, so the piece relies on Foley and score for it’s audio, though the delivery of information is such that no sound is necessary to understand the goings on. The disjointed structure, use of slow motion throughout and slightly hazy photography make the presentation dreamlike like something experienced in an altered state of consciousness. The plot is presented as a broken chronology, coming in out of event order in shots that only last a few seconds each. ![]() While there isn’t anything in the plot that’s particularly special it’s the manner in which it is delivered that makes this four minute short fascinating. ![]() She fights back, resulting in the deaths of her attackers, but she cannot escape the law and is taken in with her victory, and life, in tact. The client just happens to be a dirty police officer and, in his anger, takes the woman out behind the building to be beaten and killed. The plot of the film is very simple set in the 1920’s, a young woman, presumably working in a brothel or some other house of ill repute, is abused by her client and fights back, injuring him. The piece was shot with friends on a meager budget and captured on an iPhone as a showcase for the power of guerrilla film making and direct distribution. ![]() The director released the short film Snow Steam Iron directly to the Vero social media platform (though it has since found other avenues for escape) in late 2017 as part of a promotional push for the fledgling business. When life hands you a shit sandwich the size and consistency that it was asking him to choke down, what can you do? Well if you’re Zack Snyder you do what you have always done turn on the camera and shoot something. It started with the director losing control over what was arguably the biggest movie of his career to date, the damaged eventual release Justice League, and became compounded by a horrible personal tragedy that saw him essentially throw down his sword and walk away the game. A long look at the short film By M.SchinkeĢ017 was a troubling year for Director Zack Snyder. ![]()
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