Directed by Sam Taylor-Wood (2002)

A genius work by video artist Sam Taylor-Wood: Take the most simple scenario you get, waive all additions like sounds or visual effects and create nevertheless a breath-taking film.
While painter of the 17th century created immutable pictures of objects in their most beautiful moments, Sam Taylor-Wood refreshes the traditional work of still life and tells simple a story about the transient nature of life.
The camera catches a dead rabbit which is decompositing rapidly before our eyes, while the mellow peach beside it stays untouched all the time. In an odd, beautiful way it shows how fast a once living being can disappear without any possibility of changing it…

If you’d like to see related works of Sam Taylor-Wood, you should also watch her film Still Life. Besides her work as a video artist, Taylor-Wood had also her directorial film debut in Nowhere Boy, a movie based on the childhood experiences of Beatles-legend John Lennon.

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