We Have Decided Not to Die (2004) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

2004 · 11 mins · English

Starring

Daniel Askill, Jordan Askill, Kasia Werstak

The film presents three silent rituals—birth, transition, and rebirth—through stark, wordless vignettes. A woman lies at the bottom of an empty pool, rises, sinks, convulses, then hovers above the water. A shirtless man in white pants stands in an asphalt lot as two cars back up, pause, race toward him, and he leaps. A youth in white shorts stands before a tall building, rides an elevator to the roof, runs to a window and crashes through. Each tableau emphasizes a visceral cycle of emergence and return.