Robert Lang's Short Film | "Sleepwalking"

“Sleepwalking”, the new short film starting Micaela Mclucas and her real-life partner Simon Kuzmickas, is directed by LA based photographer and director Robert Lang. With a depiction of love that upheaves the traditional breakup model, song, unrest etc. Lang constructs a portrait that assimilates the loss and disillusionment to a poetic monologue, weaving through Mclucas’s gaze and memory. The viewer is encapsulated into a world reminiscent of Agnes Varda and early French new wave film approaches.

"Fame is forever", she claims, "and I will forever be your greatest love story.”

In a surreal execution that is layered with a somber voiceover and a distant faded tune of a saxophone, Lang ruminates on the psychology of love, where it leaves us and where we go. Patterned with an array of shifting visuals, the film leaves us in an abundance of metaphors and beauty in the heightened manner in which we connect and dissolve out of love.

This film confronts the realization that a relationship is over, from the woman's point of view. It features photographer Micaela Mclucas and her real-life partner model Simon Kuzmickas as they portray the characters' emotional end. We witness her as she presents a diary-style monologue detailing her feelings of resentment, their facade of love, and how the toxic cycle of their relationship can only be broken by its demise. Scenes switch between present, past and future as the characters — both individually and as a couple — display the emotional effects of aching loss and the pain of separation. The woman assures her departing lover that his future lovers will know her name, see her face on billboards, and grow to adore her. "Fame is forever", she claims, "and I will forever be your greatest love story."