Ball of Love
A nano film, shot on an iphone, 'Ball of Love' is about a quirky unemployed girl that feels out of place and unhappy. Torn between what she has to do and what she wants to do, she finds the world to be what's strange, not her. She decides to go into the forest. She has nothing to lose and wants to find herself. She finds freedom, beauty and a truer reality there. She decides to make a sanctuary in the forest, where streams pour crystal clean water and the air is fresh. But her mind returns to thoughts she has about the world; the wars, natural disasters and how the planet is suffering. She unravels because she fears that either things change for the better, or they will get worse. She has a dream wherein a fox gives her a symbolic "ball of love". He tells her to bury it in the Earth. In her dream, she is visited by fantastical forest creatures that give her gifts of strength, courage, peace, happiness, wisdom and love which make her feel whole. She awakens and feels the desire to go back into the world and change things, instead of giving up on it and herself. The questions she asks the Universe are answered when she takes the time to open up to them. She understands that the world is fragile, like she is. She grasps the answer to life which is that everything together is purely ONE and the journey is the beauty of it all
- Runtime
- 15m
- Released
- 2011
Details
Release year: 2011
Storyline
A nano film, shot on an iphone, 'Ball of Love' is about a quirky unemployed girl that feels out of place and unhappy. Torn between what she has to do and what she wants to do, she finds the world to be what's strange, not her. She decides to go into the forest. She has nothing to lose and wants to find herself. She finds freedom, beauty and a truer reality there. She decides to make a sanctuary in the forest, where streams pour crystal clean water and the air is fresh. But her mind returns to thoughts she has about the world; the wars, natural disasters and how the planet is suffering. She unravels because she fears that either things change for the better, or they will get worse. She has a dream wherein a fox gives her a symbolic "ball of love". He tells her to bury it in the Earth. In her dream, she is visited by fantastical forest creatures that give her gifts of strength, courage, peace, happiness, wisdom and love which make her feel whole. She awakens and feels the desire to go back into the world and change things, instead of giving up on it and herself. The questions she asks the Universe are answered when she takes the time to open up to them. She understands that the world is fragile, like she is. She grasps the answer to life which is that everything together is purely ONE and the journey is the beauty of it all
Top credits
- Tamara Aida Diaz — The Girl
- Paul Isaac — The wolf