N.9 - MASTERY IN THE SHORT FILM: "CURVE" BY TIM EGAN.
In 2016 the world of short films was overwhelmed by a viral phenomenon: “Curve” by Australian director Tim Egan was released, the video of which, in just a few months, reached 10 million views.
< 0>As if that wasn't enough, in the various festivals in which it is presented, “Curve” accumulates victory after victory: it wins the Sitges Festival, the Austin Fantastic Fest, the Thess International Short Film Festival in Thessaloniki, the Made in Melbourne Festival, the Knoxville Horror Film Fest, the Sidney Underground Film Festival and the iHorror Film Festival in 2017.
“Curve” is a shining example of how you can build very high tension without any jumpscares, without monsters and without violence.
Based on the performance of Laura Jane Turner alone who plays a woman on the edge of a particular precipice, the film is a visual representation of a dream which, more or less, we have all done it in life and this experience has recurred several times: waking up suddenly with the clear sensation of falling into the void even though we are perfectly lying on the bed.
Tim Egan also combined this recurring dream with the experience in which, by a miracle, he avoided being hit by a car: he managed to avoid being hit by a car at the last moment and fell to the ground semi-conscious with his eyes only able to see the sky; although he understood that he was still alive, he was aware that at any moment another vehicle could arrive to hit him and this experience profoundly affected him.
With “Curve” he wanted , in some way, to exorcise this trauma by linking it to the dreamlike experience of falling into the void.
Egan was asked several times to make a feature film of "Curve" but he always refused because, ultimately, what he managed to tell in 9 very tense minutes is much more than what various Thriller-Horror films usually manage to say in 90.
Absolutely worth seeing.