AboveDeepBuggy Some things I liked some I did not.

Seraherrera The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Abegail Noëlle While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

runamokprods Beguiling 3 minute short film that consists simply of an extended pan past a wooden fence with flowers growing over it, ending with a tilt up into a blue sky as a scratchy recording of Ella Fitzgerald singing 'All My Life' plays over.It manages to be funny and a little sad, as the shoddy fence seems to say something about the poverty of the human world we're looking at, but the flowers and the tilt to the sky give some sort of hope. Baillie was a favorite director of Martin Scorsese's and I could see why from this short. Easy to see at video sites on the web. A quick Google will lead you there. And worth it

Polaris_DiB Well, this is a rather lovely fence. In all seriousness, the up-and-down spokes, the broken parts, and the roses do make a nice little allegory for a life--good parts and bad parts, uneven but regular in its own way, ascension afterwards, the movie ends just short of being pure blue sky (there's still a little power line on the right. Human technological evidence, yet very natural. A lot of rising hope in the end.The song by Ella Fitzgerald is beautiful, but that should come as no surprise because it's Ella Fitzgerald. The rhythmic winding of the fence is a good simple match to the beat of the song, which is nice considering we're used to music videos that take a lot of time editing together imagery that matches the beat, but here something found like a fence in Anywhere, USA does all the rhythmic work on its own. This movie is also definitely one of the more pleasant experimental films to be made as many experimental films set to task to put the viewer out of the comfort zone rather than creating something quite so poetic or elegiac.--PolarisDiB

Oct And it's one of the most intense, compacted moments of joy in the cinema. I must have watched this minimalist music video-- Teddy Wilson's orchestra with the young Ella Fitzgerald delivering a ballroom swing number of the late 1930s, scratchily recorded-- fifty times... and never failed to be uplifted, and never known quite why.It's a continuous take, panning west, of a broken-down old clifftop fence-cum-hedge, sometimes floral, sometimes bare. At the end (as the vocal refrain ends and the orchestra slides into the final recapitulatory chorus) the camera eye soars calmly up into the wide blue yonder, crossing a telephone wire, and fades. And that's it.Sheer magic, a visual haiku. One hates to be at a loss for critical words, but 'All My Life' defies them. Just see it.

Jenna Cain This film was perfectly beautiful. Before viewing this film, I was told that this film was the "most perfect movie ever made". While I don't know if I can completely agree with that, I can understand the argument. The film was just three minutes long but it impressed me with the depth of effects that were added. The effects created on an optical printer, a painstaking way to mesh the film together, created fades, dissolves, and other special effects that are truly breathtaking. The music that was laid underneath the footage, All My Life by Ella Fitzgerald, added a depth to the film that personally kept me intrigued. While watching the film I was unaware as to where the story was going, what would happen next, but in the end I realized that the film was simply about the movement of the camera, the effects, colors, lines, and most importantly for me, the music.