Micro Short
KICKING THE SKY
Directed by 
Lara Genovese
AFIN 2022 Honorable Mention
- 2022
- 7m
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UK - English
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Synopsis
A lonely young boy faces his nightmare to then awake stronger. The story is the second chapter of a series of shorts titled “UNLINKED”, depicting solitude from different points of view. Kicking The Sky pictures the mind of a young boy, Tim, who dwells in fear of not being seen. His nightmare is expressed with long shadows which come to life and become his only friends. Tim plays with them, acting out what he is unable to do in real life.
Director's Statement
The short experiments with the idea of making a live action version of short animations with no real dialogue. The target is to create a touching story with strong coloured visuals and 80s references, and to outline social topics through a fantastical and absurd setting. Chapter I and III of the trilogy have been written but need the funding to be made.
What makes this one special
- A first-time filmmaker
Director's Biography
Lara Genovese Director
Lara Genovese is a Director, Writer, Photographer, and Set Designer with a degree in Architecture. She lives in London and works in set decorating teams for studio feature films such as Warner Brothers, Disney, Universal, Marvel, and Netflix. She directs, produces, and set designs her own theatre shows, directs art videos, was a former Walt Disney Imagineer-theme park designer in Hong Kong for five years, and an Architect working for Foster+Partners for two years. Her photography work has been exhibited often in PH21 Gallery-Budapest. As a director, her credits in London include the professional stage play representation of “Bullet Hole”, Park Theatre 2018. In Hong Kong she has directed/designed several shows and her art videos have been exhibited in festivals. She is the director of the shorts “Kicking the Sky”, ”Frog”, “Nene” and “Wow-er Woman”. As a writer she has written and pitched a TV series pilot, a Children's book- book 1 of an indented series with potentials in diverse media, an Animation series, several shorts, and is dramaturg/director attached on the next theatre venture “Imperfect Baby”.