Sorry about the delay, dear reader, it's been a little busy even when I haven't been at movies, and blogging from the phone isn't all it's cracked up to be. Maybe I need more practice, but right now I have a longish break so here I go playing catchup.
For me the highpoint for Shorts Program V, which is the best shorts program I've seen this year, was "The Hunter and the Swan Discuss Their Meeting." Yes, the name is nearly as long as the film.
This 8 minute modern fairy tale is very funny. Two couples are on a double date, when the one is asked how they met. This is how the tale unfolds.
The hunter stumbles upon a group of lovely ladies bathing in a stream, when he startles them they grab their feathered cloaks, turn to swans and fly away. He returns and steals one of the cloaks so that the girl has to stay in human form.
The telling of the story causes the swan princess to have a revelation of her own about the hunter.
I would guess that this short is inspired by this illustration of Valkyries with swan skins from Fredrik Sander's 1893 edition of the Poetic Edda.
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