This too shall past

This new stop-animation film by Lili Giacobino called “This too shall pass”, is a dramatic gothic tale of the resilience and strength that we can embody when we allow space for healing after experiencing an emotional dagger to the heart. The film illustrates the transition from anguish to rage through to stillness and settlement and concludes with a reminder that ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’.

Referencing gaming culture in form and content as both an aesthetic device and point of nostalgia, Yeh's video for the band Xiu Xiu's "This Too Shall Pass (For Freddy)" portrays young twentysomething life in the style of overhead "dungeon crawler" video games. The digital sprites flutter throughout each other's daily lives and dramas in a manner that evokes a cross between The Legend of Zelda and MTV's The Real World. At night the characters escape into digital dreams that eventually collide, via partying, into a surrealistic, psychedelic episode blurring the line between reality and oblivion.

A movie about two lovers splitting paths.

Life is but a moment. And the trials and tribulations life throws at us are also momentary. All things shall pass, just as they came, in due time.