PAREIDOLIA - 1 Minute Short Film | Award Winning

Pareidolia is the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern (Merriam-Webster)

This one minute film uses pareidolia as a tool to convey the importance of human connection and the role that memories can play in uplifting our mood and perception of the world around us.

Award Winning: 1st Place & Audience Choice. The Gotta Minute Film Festival, Alberta Canada (2023).
Finalist at Vesuvius International Film Fest, Italy (2023).
Official selection 60 Second Intl. Film Festival, Islamabad, Pakistan (2023)

MAN
Daniel Eduardo Maldonado

DIRECTED BY
Carlos Andrés Reyes
PRODUCED BY
Laura Melissa Knudson &
Carlos Andrés Reyes
CINEMATOGRAPHY BY
Sebastián Prada
SOUND
Daniela Tamara Sáenz
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Lucia Rufini Adet
VFX
Cristian Zorro Sánchez
WRITTEN BY
Carlos Andrés Reyes

MUSIC
FONO 89
Also Duduk with Orchestra
by Joshua Empyre

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[igigoooo]

grazie juj mi hai migliorato la serata consigliandomi questo corto

[an_internet_user]

Legit thought this was a horror film, but turned out really wholesome and bittersweet. All these feelings in just less than 1 minute... this short deserved the award...

[RebeccaLoran]

It just goes to show that all of the forced smiles we tell ourselves we need in order to face the world are meaningless. It's the people we love who make this all worth it.

[brianarbenz]

On a job from which I recently retired, as I would ride in on the bus each morning, I'd pass a telephone pole a couple of blocks from the entrance to the building with two red circular reflectors, and mouth-shaped tape under them placed on the pole. It was often the last smiling face I'd see over the next eight hours. That gives you an idea of how happy a workplace that was.

[invisi-bullexploration]

This literally happened to me.

In 2018 I found out somebody I knew had passed on. I wasn't a good person back then but for some reason they believed in me.

So I stumbled out to a store to do some grocery shopping and I kept seeing smiles in the oddest of places. This is when I decided to turn my life around. If this person believed in me so strongly I had my own shoes to fill. Thanks Karly.

[rogerkearns]

Funny thing: last night, I included the word _pareidolia_ in a reply to someone's comment on a different video, then, this morning, this (present) video is in my recommendations. Seemingly, 'the algorithm' reads our replies to other people's comments!

[MaríaFlorenciaIm]

In only 1 minute this short film makes me feel funny and smiling and then crying. This is a masterpiece!.

[effhorst]

Now you got the message: carry that beautiful smile into your world - and let HER rest in the focus of your heart❣

[Sutanreyu]

You see the smile of someone you love everywhere after they're gone...

[BurntWoodsProductions]

This brought a smile to my face and then a tear to my eye, well done

[JosephViss]

It was shot just wonderful! This short film received its award deservedly)

[beanseason]

What a beautiful and wrenching story. Wow. I found this by total chance and watched because of the faces, and they sucked me into the storyline just long enough to hit me with a hammer to the chest. Brilliant work. Keep at what you do, because you've got that spark that sets you apart from the rest.

[HeatherBayles]

I never thought a one minute film would make me

[nawzadjamal]

I like this short but long enough film to capture a great subject of our lives. Passionate acting.

[dotritai]

The happiness starts from deeply our heart, not from things.

[AnaMariaPerezGuerrero]

Muy lindo! Su metraje invita a mirar con otros ojos los objetos que pueblan nuestra cotidianidad y, de manera my especial, a quienes tenemos en nuestra vida, que es lo que más importa y nos mueve a continuar.

[laurak]

Artfully concise and meaningful film. Thank you!

[filip_kastl_cz]

Oh, I haven't noticed for the first time: the alarm had also smile.

Great work!

I was looking for inspiration for my first short and I've found this.

Keep up and all the best!

[sreejithk]

The man sees her daughter's smile in everything

[thTwistedLight]

This man embodies the "Don't Forget You're Here Forever" covered into "You're Here For Her"