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Curse of the Sunset Starlet (2013)
A richly textured story
Curse of the Sunset Starlet begins with a loving tribute to Los Angeles: palm trees, theatre marquees and the luxurious script of signage that marks L.A.'s midcentury modern architecture. Richly textured and laced with irony, the movie is a tribute to the drama served up by the extraordinary and banal juxtapositions of everyday life and the fictional life of movies. The film likens the magical (and sometimes horrifying) world of movie-making captured on celluloid to the fastidious efforts of an artist trying to literally capture an ephemeral essence of beauty by pinning the evasive material of butterfly (or moth) wings to paper. Each requires a certain determination, perseverance and faith on the part of its creator. This short captures the richness of symbolism, metaphor and imagination that spur the creative spirit to transcend the every day and reach for something beyond.