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“A Short Feels Like a Song, a Feature Would Be the Album”: Pepi Ginsberg on Her Cannes Short, The Pass
In The Pass, a young man bicycles into a small town looking for a place to go for a swim. Learning of a nearby clearing, he heads over there and takes that swim. That, minus one element, is the plot of Pepi Ginsberg’s Cannes-premiering short film, selected for the La Cinef program, but it’s that missing element — an ambiguously menacing encounter occurring while our protagonist is in the water — that gives the tremendously assured The Pass its cool, unsettling tone. Since 2016, the recent NYU Tisch grad has made a number of shorts, both narrative and documentary, as well as […]
by Scott Macaulay on May 25, 2022
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