Retro Dating Video Backfires | Atomic Love

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It’s 1988. Recently married Dana helps her eternally-single friend Aleea make a video profile for a dating service ATOMIC LOVE, provoking a confession which forces them to address the nature of their relationship. A selection of Short of the Week, the web's leading curators of quality short films. SUBMIT A FILM: https://www.shortoftheweek.com/submit/ FULL REVIEW: https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2021/09/06/atomic-love/ Subscribe to S/W on YouTube! Website: http://www.shortoftheweek.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ShortoftheWeek Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shortoftheweek Twitter: https://twitter.com/shortoftheweek "Back in the 80s, the ancestor of apps like Tinder, Bumble or Hinge was the video dating service, where those looking for love were asked to tape a video profile, introducing themselves and what they were looking for in a partner. It was a process a lot more complicated than carefully curating pictures from our camera roll, but also offered a greater sense of authenticity and intimacy. In writer/director Imogen McCluskey’s 10-minute short Atomic Love, we join Dana as she helps her best friend Aleea record her video profile and as she struggles to put into words her thoughts and feelings on love, we come to understand that there might be a very specific reason for that. With McCluskey citing videos of 80’s ‘studs’ looking for love as her initial source of inspiration for Atomic Love, one can easily imagine how cringey, yet captivating, those videos

Published 2021-09-23 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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