Artist Feature: "I'm Here". A short film by Spike Jonze.
 

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personal commentary:
I've heard nothing but positive buzz about this film since it premiered 4 months ago at Sundance, and then again, approximately 2 months ago, when the buzz intensified triplefold, and was felt near everywhere (film industry in-scope-wise), when ABSOLUT decided to allow this film to go "live".
Similar to another short film venture I posted previously, (SIGNS) this film was both commissioned, and produced (distributed) by the ABSOLUT Vodka brand. This means that, although the director (Spike Jonze) has near unlimited free-reign to allow his own idea of a narrative to form, the marketing brand does prefer to at least be mentioned, if only casually, in the final cut. While this may sound as though this could be a half-hour commercial for booze, I'll state it simply here; it's not. Technically, although that may be right, the story here goes much deeper than what an occasional "product-placement" glimpse in the film would lead you to believe, and while I'd rather not heap undue praise on it as of yet, (as I, myself, have not watched the entire thing, either) I'll allow you folks to decide if this film was an experience worth trying.

What a sweet and brilliant little thing of a movie. I tried to watch it a few months ago after reading a short article Vice wrote about it but I guess the site was too bogged down as I couldn't get it to load. Thanks for this, Jetée.

I finally got around to finishing this film (much like my foray into re-reading and finishing Melville's Moby Dick, watching this short film was a process of short snippet watches spread interspersed over the past three months), and whilst it took me a long while, I did thoroughly enjoy it. I wasn't too keen on the musical score at first, but after re-watching a few scenes more times than I can recall trying to catch up, I think it added a great deal of body to the product. I also didn't see why "replacement parts" couldn't have been fetched, but I don't really know the working salary of a robot librarian to knon why this wasn't a feasible end-solution.

And dissimilar to the other product-commissioned short film I've seen before, in this film, I don't remember seeing any overt, or even subvert, "product placement" scenes. Must have happened during the party, but even then, I still didn't catch one glimpse of it (and I watched that scene a few times too many) ; must have to do with it not making any sense of why there would be any drinking at a small shindig mostly-being-attended by automatons.

Anybody else watch and enjoy the film?

It gets to be a bit more than surreal, then realizing, you are the protagonist
 

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Or I...


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