Swain

Year: 1950

Runtime: 24 mins

Drama

Inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Fanshawe,” the film weaves a dreamlike narrative in which a young man consciously rejects heterosexual norms while a mysterious woman clothed in white gossamer haunts his journey across a desolate, ruined landscape, creating a surreal, ritualized pursuit.

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