| A
day at the pool. Parents play peacefully with their kids in the water.
A holiday. People of all ages and conditions in swimming costumes also
of varying ages and conditions swim or soak themselves or cool down in
the liquid element. Suddenly a fin appears at the bottom of the pool.
Jaws, perhaps? Flipper? Free
Willy? No, because there’s no daylight, the water is chlorinated
and there are cork floats. It’s a swimming pool. And it’s
the start of Pool Shark, the work presented this year
by Sam Walker after having garnered last year’s Jury Prize at the
Festival for Best Short Film with his Duck Children.
What’s a shark doing in a swimming pool? Because it’s a shark,
no? And a pool, no? Nothing is what it seems to be in this short film
playing with reality and the spectator, with his or her fears and with
all of the movies he or she has ever seen. |
