Death to the Tinman // Shortfilm (2007) Written & Directed by Ray Tintori

Incredible short film, I’ve loved it for years, and it never gets old to me.

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.

Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes can’t see

Death to the Tinman

For years now, my favorite, short film. One of the most strangely beautiful stories/films I’ve known.

Be patient and tough // Someday this pain will be useful to you

It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it’s so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn’t coma back. You’re left so alone that you can’t explain.

When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn’t make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better. “It’s all right” we whisper, “I’m here, I love you.” and we lie: “I’ll never leave you.” For just a moment or two the darkness doesn’t seem so bad.

Memories are what warm you up from the inside, but they’re also what tear you apart // Haruki Murakami

Haunted by a ghost of what was