A gifted young filmmaker

Longtime readers may recall my linking to the film shorts written and directed by Joe Gleason, a film student out of Notre Dame. I have a particular and lasting fondness for his film The Dinner Guest, (found via Fausta who called it “a wonderful combination of familiarity and yearning.”)

I loved The Dinner Guest so much -and it resonated so deeply with those who viewed it- that I was happy to also link to Gleason’s The Hospital Ward, which is very different.

I’ve never met Gleason, but I think he must be a young man with a very big heart. He recently sent me his last film for Notre Dame, a bit longer -still evoking Brideshead Revisited in a wonderful way- and shot on location in England (see if you can identify the train!). It is called Almost Evening. It’s a bit more ambitious than the first two films, and more than a little surprising in its subject matter. Enjoy.

I hope Joe Gleason has a very successful career. I think we need filmmakers like him – with an eye for beauty and a soul willing to be open.