Browse: Home / Lunch Links: HOME AWAY FROM HOME

Menu

Skip to content
  • Home
  • Who We Are
  • About
  • Privacy
  • Contact Us
  • Login

The-SoluteLogo

A Film Site By Lovers of Film

Menu

Skip to content
  • Features
  • Reviews
  • Long Reviews
  • News
  • Articles and Opinions
  • Other Media
  • Lunch Links: SMILES
  • Catching Up
  • Flashback Comics Rack: Highlights of June 1970
  • Film on the Internet: MAY
  • Camera Obscura: THE YEAR OF THE HORSE/THE HORSE IN THE GRAY FLANNEL SUIT

Lunch Links: HOME AWAY FROM HOME

Posted By Julius Kassendorf on December 13, 2018 in Short Articles | 54 Responses

This week’s short film says different things to me depending on the mood I’m in. My initial note for this short film was “No matter where they go, some people are always tied to home.” 

When I watched it again, I thought this was about the pains of creation.

Tonight, it is about the longing for connection in a big city.

Home Away From Home is a film that is a touch of everything, popping in and out of a meta-narrative that always threatens to cohere but stays defiantly ambiguous. I think this short reflects back what you might be feeling at any given time.

I first watched it last year after work on the day after Christmas when i was a little homesick.

In the summer, I was watching it during an industrious work period full of creative pains.

Tonight, I rewatched it after going to a gay holiday burleseque show that was simultaneously an irreverent take on the holidays, and an affecting community gathering that acknowledged struggle and pressure felt by the LGBTQ community, validated the LGBTQ collective cultural consciousness, and provided togetherness and strength to continue survival. 

Go into this short not knowing what to expect. Some who don’t connect to the twisty tale will find the narrative hopelessly convoluted and twee. Others will see different parts of the story.

Posted in Short Articles | Tagged Foreign, Foreign Movies, Japan, Japanese, Lunch Links, Yukinori Makabe

About the Author

Julius Kassendorf

Julius Kassendorf is the founder of The-Solute, and previously founded The Other FIlms and Project Runaways in 2013. There, he dabbled in form within reviews to better textualize thought processes about the medium of film.

Previously, he has blogged at other, now-defunct, websites that you probably haven’t heard of, and had a boyfriend in Canada for many years. Julius resides in Seattle, where he enjoys the full life of the Seattle Film Community.

Julius’ commanding rule about film: Don’t Be Common. He believes the worst thing in the world is for a film to be like every other film, with a secondary crime of being a film with little to no ambition.

Related Posts

Should have shot from the other side of the tracks to make it a smile!Lunch Links: SMILES→

Lunch Links: BAMBI MEETS GODZILLA→

Lunch Links: Two by Zbigniew Rybczyński→

If you were enveloped by this ancient living structure, you'd be home now.Lunch Links: Two by Tomasz Bagiński→

  • Comments
  • Popular
  • Most Recent
  • j*****@yahoo.com'
    mr_apollo on Year of the Month: Mon OncleWonderful piece, Sam. It's made…
  • j*****@yahoo.com'
    mr_apollo on Year of the Month: Mon OncleFellow heretic here. I've never…
  • n***********@gmail.com'
    Ruck Cohlchez on Film on the Internet: AN AMERICAN CRIMEI wouldn't have called it…
  • j***********@gmail.com'
    Son of Griff on LIFE ITSELFGlad to hear back from…
  • n*********@gmail.com'
    Jake Gittes on Film on the Internet: AN AMERICAN CRIMEThis is the single most…
  • “The End” of SAVAGES

    35414 views / Posted November 10, 2014
  • What the fuck did I just watch? SPHERE

    28128 views / Posted March 19, 2015
  • The Untalented Mr. Ripley: The Craft of Standup Comedy and the Non-Comedy of TOM MYERS

    26652 views / Posted June 26, 2018
  • Gordon with Mr. Looper

    Attention Must Be Paid: Will Lee

    26619 views / Posted January 7, 2023
  • Scenic Routes: SHOWGIRLS (1995)

    20680 views / Posted November 20, 2014
  • Should have shot from the other side of the tracks to make it a smile!

    Lunch Links: SMILES

    September 21, 2023 / The Ploughman
  • Wholesome family entertainment?

    Catching Up

    September 20, 2023 / Gillianren
  • Flashback Comics Rack: Highlights of June 1970

    September 20, 2023 / Sam "Burgundy Suit" Scott
  • Film on the Internet: MAY

    September 20, 2023 / ZoeZ
  • The Year of the Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit

    Camera Obscura: THE YEAR OF THE HORSE/THE HORSE IN THE GRAY FLANNEL SUIT

    September 19, 2023 / Gillianren

Last Tweets

    ©2014 - 2016 The-Solute | Hosted, Developed and Maintained by Bellingham WP LogoBellinghamWP.com.

    Menu

    • Home
    • Who We Are
    • About
    • Privacy
    • Contact Us
    • Login
    Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site!