EPISODES
EPISODE TWO: AUGUST 10
This week on Fine Cut, less is more: The Sweet Spot (AFI), Doki Doki (UCLA) and Opera. (CalArts).




EPISODE 02
DOKI DOKI
Written, Directed and Edited by Chris Eska
UCLA

Doki Doki
"For years, strangers in Tokyo wait together every morning in the same place, for the same seat, on the same train...never speaking. Finally, connections are made." Set in Tokyo - and in Japanese with English subtitles. Video, black and white. A girl wants to learn more about the same people she sees every day over a 1000 day period commuting on the subway. She becomes obssessed with a guy she sees who doesn't recognize her from their childhood.


OPERA
Directed by Nhan Vo
CalArts

Opera
A man falls in love with an opera star. He tries to win her affections with one gift after another – but to no avail. What happens when all else fails?


THE SWEET SPOT
Written and Directed by Victoria Foyt
American Film Institute

The Sweet Spot
In this visually stylized and darkly comedic tale of romantic delusion, a wife decides to tell her Husband that she is leaving him. But first, her Lover convinces her, she must dispose of her Husband's gun, lest he become violent. The Wife sets out on her mission, enduring a series of misadventures or not. We see the world through her eyes; tensions mount and realities shift, until, in a twist of fate, the Wife discovers the true natures of the men in her life.