Reflective Encounters

“Opening with a psychedelic yellow background, Well Wishes My Love, Your Love immediately takes us down the path of the experimental. Spiced with high-pitched atmospheric music, giving pride of place to the synths, the film offers beautiful variations on the landscape it builds. It transports us into a dreamlike universe close to a video game, inviting us into an active meditation.

Through the prism of waveforms reminding us of a visual hallucination constantly renewed, Gabriel Gabriel Garble develops a strong cinematographic style, brightly colored and unique. Although the animation plays with virtuality, the overall universe is firmly rooted in a lived reality. Each landscape is offered to our eyes as a reproduction of the world, as a naturalistic painting saturated in colors and distorted by the ripples moving around the main character that we follow in his enigmatic quest.

The senses of the viewer – sight and hearing – are constantly monopolised. But this dialogue-free film also questions our sense of touch: the touch that links two beings, the one capable of filling an absence, of giving wings to feelings and flight to the imagination. We go through this journey as in a paradoxical sleep where reality and fiction intertwine before we emerge and return, like the protagonist's friend, to the world that sharpens our senses in everyday life.”

— Florian Fernandez