Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Art House Cut

Cool edit which compresses a large chunk of the main storyline of Eternal Sunshine of the Mind into a short. The A/V editing is very impressive - the edit flows between scenes smoothly and overlaps dialogue with different footage effectively. In particular, the compression of scenes leading into dreams is well done - very frantic - and the choice of ending and rescore was also good. My only critique is that the damage/grindhouse effect is overdone. All in all, it's an enjoyable short.

It goes without saying, make sure to watch the original first.

Ken Poirier's distillation of Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind is hauntingly effective.
It focuses on the breakup / erasure, followed by the all-too-human tendency to cling to cherished memories.
Video quality is scruffy, with too much damage.
The audio is not exactly spotless, either.
The story itself is the hook. A poignant look at how fleeting are relationships.
And how fragile - terribly fragile - is love.
Mr Poirier was a decent editor and longstanding member of FE.
I remember him leaving, though I cannot recall the details.
His presence is missed.

Another impressive effort at condensing a story and maintaining coherence. Most of the editing seemed fine to me - as some others have noted, the only significant issue with this is the "aged film" effect, which was sometimes quite obviously artificial and would likely have benefitted from further adjustment on a scene-by-scene basis (though this would obviously be quite time-consuming).

Conceptually and as far as the narrative goes, I enjoyed this edit quite a bit. Unfortunately I found the edit's film damage effects unconvincing and fairly distracting. Cool idea though.

When love turns sour, there's a lot of residual pain. This short explores the notion of removing that pain. But like Kirk said - "They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves." I think that sums up the surreal experience that follows. Removing the bad means removing the context for the good memories that make us hurt. Interesting stuff. Film degradation/damage effects seem convincing to me.