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LAUGHING BETWEEN THE SILENCE

LAUGHING BETWEEN THE SILENCE, 2021 (1:31 seconds). Magical realism storytelling about the life, death and life again of Ernest Hemingway.

  • Sam Samore
    Director
    Mirror of Happiness, 2022
  • Sam Samore
    Writer
    Dead in Paris, 2024
  • Andy Gillet
    Key Cast
    "Hemingway"
    Mystery at the Louvre Museum, 2017
  • Thomas Nordanstad
    Director of Photography
    The Long Melody, 2025
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    1 minute 31 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 10, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    10,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16.9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Sam Samore

I have written five published collections of fairytales. Also exhibited paintings, photographs, and installations around the world. Besides many shorts, I have written and directed two feature length “artist films”: "Hallucinations/Paradise", 2010 and "Mirror of Happiness", 2022. I received a BA in Film /Television at San Francisco State University, and a MFA from the University of New Mexico.

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Director Statement

This film follows ideas from the Theatre of the Absurd - celebrating the sensibilities of such writers as Gertrude Stein and the stream of consciousness narratives of James Joyce. In cinema “Laughing Between the Silence” continues in the footsteps of the pioneer Luis Buñuel. Recent examples of Magic Realism would include “The Lobster” by Yorgos Lanthimos, as well as the work of Brit Marling.