See several more short films from the project here, including “Silience: The Brilliant Artistry Hidden All Around You”-if, that is, we could only pay attention to it. Watch the video for “Vemödalen: The Fear That Everything Has Already Been Done” up top. Sometimes the relationship is less subtle, but still magical, as in the far from sorrowful “Chrysalism: The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.”
Take “Énouement,” defined as “the bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.” A psychology of aging in the form of an eloquent dictionary entry. The feeling that no matter what you do is always somehow wrong-as if there’s some obvious way forward that everybody else can see but you, each of them leaning back in their chair and calling out helpfully, “colder, colder, colder…”īoth the coinages and the definitions illuminate each other. Many of the Dictionary’s other terms trend far more unambiguously melancholy, if not neurotic-hence “obscure sorrows.” But they also range considerably in tone, from the relative lightness of Greek-ish neologism “Anecdoche”-”a conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening”-to the majorly depressive “pâro”: Sonder likely became as popular as it did on social media because the theme “we’re all living connected stories” already resonates with so much popular culture.
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