The ultimate film in this programme not only reflects the final, and perhaps most emotionally complex stage of intimacy, but evokes a need for reflection on the consequences and implications of short-lived, suspended relationships. While it is easy to romanticise relationships as invaluable fragments of closeness and connectedness, this film exposes the reality of when intimacy, security, and stability do not persist the way we may want them to. Portraying an “obsessive paranoid manic depressive breakdown” following a brief romantic relationship, we are brought back to reality and reminded that the beauty and ideality of impermanence is often not so easy to appreciate. What’s more, the film elicits further reflection on the meaning of ‘relationship’ itself. If an emotional connection still persists, albeit unilaterally, can we claim that the relationship is really over? Or does the relationship simply enter a new dimension that extends beyond what is perceptible to the eye?

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