From the Film Maker...

I found the painting strikingly painful, as if it catches a moment of realization of something incredibly important and unexplainable at the same time.

The inspiration for my film came from the seeming tenderness of blue water fading in to a blue sky. This contrasts with the intense green against the red material thrown over the Nymph. This led me to the idea of using simple straightforward colours to achieve a striking un-naturalistic feel.

The body of the nymph, for me, illuminates everything around her. I translated this shininess into the glow of love and care that a child feels from a mother.

In the final scene, as the boy sees that the mother is not responding to him any more, I arranged the composition to resemble the painting.
Elena Valden