The film packs a complete punch of humor, absurdity and the complete immersion of the viewer within its narrative. It bemuses you, and deliberately so, as it takes you into a day in Miles' life who wakes up to find a stain on his otherwise perfectly clean bedsheet. Amidst the lovely flamingos in the shade of the most aesthetically pleasing pink, rests a spot of a dirty brown-red. Thus begins Miles' bewilderment in unpacking the cause and reasons behind it. For the viewer who frequently engages with creative content, the instinct is to look for metaphors, symbolism and hidden meanings within this seemingly complex narrative. However this pursuit of meaning, this fixation with making sense of a regular story unfolding before you is no different from Miles' fixation with the stain. It is then in this manner that the protagonist and the viewer not only reach a space of overlap, but perhaps also doom themselves to the same fate of uncertainty in a world where absurdity reigns free, even in the face of all our desperate attempts to look for order, patterns or sense in the functionings of a possibly arbitrary universe.

Stain | Short Film of the Day

The music video is a stringing together of images that acquire an almost dreamlike quality in their progression. 

As disparate elements are presented thus - a strange couple showing signs of violence that steps out from behind a curtain in the middle of a field, a teenager screaming into endless space while driving around in circles, alcohol poured all over a car and a near-dead man singing, looking directly into the camera, the narrative weaves itself before you. There is alcohol, violence, predominance of imagery associated with eyes, and perhaps a potentially brutal murder tied into a single unit within the story. 

Much of 'Corrosiff'’s message is the symbolism and metaphors it offers, while the voice continues singing of the dirt and the forever circular movement. However, the flip side of symbolism and dreaminess is that it may hinder the lucidity of the message itself, sometimes even triumphing it. The music video, therefore, can be appreciated with the same approach, making sufficient room for unanswered questions from the plot.

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