Couch
When a garage sale turns up a tired old couch, buried memories are brought to life.
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Offering hope for Teshuvah, a new beginning
Couch touches on two major themes that faith traditions often grapple with. The first is the range of difficult life-challenges that present themselves to us during our short span. Behind closed doors too often, families struggle with conflict and abuse; too often life brings disappointment, tension and illness. This theme is taken up in Judaism in a number of ways, including in the way classical Jewish sources strive to understand the connections between our own actions and the consequences those actions have for our lives and those around us.
The second theme of Couch that struck me is the ever-present possibility of change. In Judaism we sometimes call this kind of change "Teshuvah" (returning, repentance). Teshuvah is a process of assessing our actions and returning to our core priorities and values as we move ahead. While Teshuvah is the focus of the High Holy Day period in the Jewish calendar (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, around September/October in the Gregorian calendar) one can make Teshuvah at any time.
Couch casts a light on some of life's challenges and offers the ever present hope of making Teshuvah, of returning to new beginnings.
Window to the soul of furniture
If eyes are the window to the soul, perhaps upholstery can be the window to the soul of furniture? In Couch an old man explores the contours of a beaten up old couch, and we explore the eventful life of this three-seater; glimpses of a family’s life in the background.
....Saron Brown.....
... wow!!! i loved that short film, we had fun makeing it.. and the food on that week was awsome!!! and it only took us 1 week to prepared the film... and 1 day to shoot and find the location.... my role on the film was the location, music, writing the song and production manger... that was fun being the production manger!!!...i feel so important !!! hahahahaha..... and thanks to those people that comment on this lovely short film..... we are very bless to have the opportuntie to put our stories into a short film.....
God bless
much love
Saron Brown aka production manager...:-)
If only couches could talk!
As a parent, I watched the Couch and smiled.
The moments that were once considered of little importance, others that seemed to arouse various emotions and situations that had a big impact, all seemed to merge into precious gems of memories. I enjoyed this short film and the gentleness in movement and expressions of the old man.
This movie tugged on the heart strings.
Our memories are trigged by many senses, here the visual sense and the sense of touch triggered the memories.