MELT

Melt is about the journey of different emotions. The film takes off in an old swimming pool in which the different fitting rooms reassemble the concept of “sonder”. Sonder is the idea that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, have a life as complex as one's own. Despite one’s personal lack of awareness of it, these people live a life filled with a spectrum of emotions and experiences. In this dance film all these emotions melt together. Where water melts the ice and numbs the fire. Melt is about accepting the soft and hard emotions. These opposites in emotions are introduced further in the theater scenes, where the dancers dressed in red and blue costumes, symbolize these antipodes. As the film intensifies and the main character is tickled with all these different feelings, she reaches a boiling point. She is overloaded and unable to place all these different stimuli. She proceeds to retract to a place of quietness, supposedly free from all these pulses. She longs for a space where she can float and be empty. However, she is yet again confronted with her own mind, one she can never seem to escape. As she awakens we enter a dream world, a utopian state in which only intimacy remains. It is breathtaking, between the sand and the water, the wind and the birds. But when reality drags you back down, the world can suddenly become very heavy again. As opposed to displaying these emotions very clear cut, overacted and extreme, we aimed to create a moving painting. Just like on a canvas, the color and shape of the dance is what conveys the story. Rather than telling a clear cut storyline, Melt aims to create an ambience which will evoke a certain emotional state of the viewer. The conceptual aspect of the film remains abstract throughout, such that the viewer is able to connect their own perception and meaning to the dance and images. Melt portrays whatever you need it to be. I believe that the connotations and meaning you derive from an artwork is merely a reflection of your own mind. The film invites you to open it so we can Melt together.