Wake Up Running - Review
Wake Up Running
Writer : Ant Honey
Runtime : 25 minutes
Genre : Experimental, Poetry
Digital - Color
Language : English
Country : USA
2025
Storyline
Wake Up Running (06/24) is a poetry collection, an offbeat playlist, ad hoc meditations, amateur bird watchings, post-punk coated gratitude, love letters, and the grittier misadventures of trying to understand yourself while everything continues to happen at once.
© A.Rodriguez
Wake Up Running, directed by Anthony Rodriguez, is a 25-minute film poem composed of a voiceover and various stylized images like a 70s film reel. The words spoken by the mysterious male voice lull us. We navigate with tranquility and calm through this wealth of short and uninterrupted images (shots of nature, vegetation, city, animals...). There is a transcendental and hypnotic side. We sometimes have the impression of seeing moments of our own existence unfold through these unpredictable flashes. A curious sensation!
© A.Rodriguez
The musical track and its repetitive notes are atmospheric, it contributes to this floating of the mind. Where am I? In what year are we? What did I experience? The director plays here with the idea of sensation, perception, feeling, lost memories that suddenly resurface, old habits that reappear. These words, these poems lead us to a sweet and deep melancholy. There remains in us only the beauty and nostalgia of our journey on Earth. Memory is on the move. Every detail counts, nothing has disappeared.
© A.Rodriguez
Wake Up Running clearly pays tribute to life and to all those little moments of lived existence that might seem unimportant but which form the basis of what we can call memory, reminiscence. They contribute to our emotions, to what we appreciate, to our passions etc. In short, the director highlights what is constantly rejected usually in modern cinema - breathing - A philosophical exercise, poetic and psychological full of audacity making us vibrate to the deepest.
By Hallucinea Film Festival
