Saying the Unsaid in Picture Form
P E N D U L U M
SPIRITUAL STOMACH FLU: A period of time in which one feels unexpected anxiety or overwhelming feelings of being lost. Like a stomach flu, the harder one fights against it, the longer it lasts.
This is a story about Cal and his spiritual stomach flu.
Official Selection - The Beverly Hills Film Festival 2024
Spiritual Stomach Flu: A period where one suffers from depression, anxiety, and/or overwhelming feelings of being lost. Like a stomach flu, symptoms can vary between individuals and the best treatment is rest, release, and time.
Pendulum is a short film about Cal and his spiritual stomach flu. Desperate for a way out, he returns to his family’s ranch as means to cope, ultimately finding, sometimes the only way through is to surrender.
Winner - Best Editing - 2024 Beverly Hills Film Festival
Falardeau rehearsing with talent Meghan Redding and Daniel Novick.
Shot with a cast & crew of 9 and in just under 48 hours, Pendulum was brought to life with tremendous support from the team and community of cattle ranchers on location.
Pendulum was an Official Selection for The 24th Annual Beverly Hills Film Festival and was awarded Best Editing out of the 211 short and feature length films in competition.
Sans Titre, Paris
Recently selected as a Quarterfinalist in the Screencraft Drama Competition, Sans Titre is a feature film that follows Alfonso, a late fifties painter, fighting off the demons of his past in an attempt to finish his magnum opus.
In development…
A late-fifties, Jewish-Spanish painter, fighting off the demons of his past, must brave going backwards in order to finish his magnum opus.
Falardeau recent spent 2 months in Paris doing additional research and writing on this script.
Details coming soon.
T H E L A S T
T H E L A S T is an abstract piece about the impulses to change, and how terrifying it can feel to follow them.
“Those who don’t want to change, let them sleep...” - Rumi
Change can feel like death - life as we know it uprooted and turned on its head. And in many ways, the big changes in life, the ones that require we let go of the person we once were in order to become who we need to be, are a permanent ending.
T H E L A S T explores this idea - the death of an old self in order to become something new. Inspiration often starts as whispers, small nudges telling us it’s time to move on, to release, to grow. And in the last, these nudges appear as dreams - the same recurring image getting louder, more vivid.
