All of the stories you see here are absolutely true...
Okay, kidding, but as the creator of them I've gotta say that they certainly do stem from the honest absurdities I view in everyday life.
These films have been made purely for fun and the challenge of doing so. The fact that Pamplemousse has been so successful has been a great bonus - and an inspiration to always create something subversively comedic and interesting, not to mention beautiful.
Enjoy and please send me a comment
A lonely farm, A lost love...
Two souls destined for each other
Rise above their circumstances
Uniting for eternity
What the Critics Say:
from: Going long on shorts
"...A Vancouver filmmaker called `tink', (that's the only name he gives) has a film called pamplemousse that uses weird comedy to make its own comment about the brutality of existence.
Clocking in at four minutes, the shortest of this year's Perspective Canada shorts, it's the surreal adventure of a smiling Inuit woman, a frozen dead hiker and a bag of grapefruit.
As a sunny bossa nova tune plays, the woman discovers the dead hiker on a mountainside. She uses his body to toboggan to the bottom, where she discovers the grapefruit the hiker had been carrying. She starts eating the fruit as the credits roll.
`It's basically a kind of resumé piece,' says tink, an art director for TV and film (including Ninja Turtles - The Next Mutation) who spent $5,000 of his own money making pamplemousse.
`I didn't train in film; my background is design. I wanted to teach myself how to work with it, and how to get a crew together.'
The strategy worked. Besides being accepted for Perspective Canada, pamplemousse was recently picked up by Atom Films in New York, a top distributor of short films. He's also starting to receive offers of other work, including an offer from England, and he has plans to work on a feature."
Peter Howell
Toronto Star Movie Critic
September 4, 1999
from: Slim pickings on film fest's shorts slate
"...The only other offbeat comedy I saw was pamplemousse (September 16, 6:30 pm, ROM; September 17, 10 am, Varsity) by a BC filmmaker named tink, in which an Inuit woman stumbles over a dead body and a bag full of grapefruits. It's light, frothy and very well shot."
Ingrid Randoja,
Now magazine,
September 2, 1999
from:
Short and feet - the little films in Perspective Canada
"**** ...Pamplemousse (for its exuberant silliness)"
"...One of the strangest and most hilarious of the program is Pamplemousse, a four-minute "bossa nova-esque meditation on grapefruit in the frozen northern tundra." Filmmaker tink (yes, that's his name) has an Inuit woman (Stephany Mathias) discover a frozen hiker with a backpack full of grapefruits. She's very excited about the citrus and -- in a sweet and playful manner -- commits an indignity upon the hand of the hiker in order to better enjoy the fruit..."
Malene Arpe,
Eye magazine,
September 2, 1999
Distributor -- Forefront Films ( forefrontfilms@sprintmail.com )
Away in the tranquil countryside, an unexpected,melodic love blossoms.
Music video for the artist “Lily Frost”
The song is about two opposing sides of one personality and how each longs to know of the other.