Cas Taylor

Director's note:

This film contains sequences of flashing lights that may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy or other photo-sensitivities such as migraine.' 

With HIRAETH, I wanted to immerse the audience in a visual and auditory experience where light and sound play with and affect one another, changing one another's very nature--if only momentarily. This is what happens when I experience a migraine with aura. It impacts my very ability to access thought, sensation, and even my conception of reality and memory can become transient, skewed by something as simple as a beam of light hitting my eye just so, or a sound as ordinary as a seagull passing overhead. 

Hiraeth (The Longing)

written, directed, production design, sound design, editing, produced: Cas Taylor

Running time: 5 minutes

Experimental short film. Drama/Documentary. 

Now Submitting via FILM FREEWAY. Contact for screening and press review password.

HIRAETH explores temporal, visual, and auditory disturbances as they relate to memory, specifically memories of my late father who--in times of personal struggle--was someone upon whom I would turn for comfort, counsel, and company. In his absence, I am filled with a kind of homesickness. A longing for something to which I can never return.

Step inside the experimental world of HIRAETH where you are the traveler, searching for something you will never find, and to which you can never return.

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waypoints

written, directed, produced, production design, sound, editing: CasTaylor

person in the woods: Cas Taylor

Running time: 5 minutes

LGBTQ+ drama/thriller about escaping intimate partner violence.

Watch now on FILM FREEWAY

When pushed to your limit, do you have what you need to make an escape? Could you? Would you? Waypoints is an ongoing web series exploring themes surrounding gender identity, equality, and relationships in an open-ended, experimental forum. "Love Is What" is an episode exploring intimate partner violence and silent abuse.


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