Beyond the One

Anna Marziano's Beyond the One, set to a breath-like rhythm, is an essayistic exploration of love's various guises, considering different attempts at courtship, living together, and sustaining connections with people once they have died. Shot on Super 8 and 16mm, the film proceeds like an open-ended travelogue through geographic spaces and excerpts from music and literature, creating a space to consider possessive desire, longing, domestic violence, family, and the pain and consternation caused by social ideals of love or coupledom. (Toronto International Film Festival)