Authentic and unplanned

The residue of a relationship

A short film that looks at the leftovers of love and tries to piece together what it all means.

This isn’t a film about a breakup, but rather an intimate cinematic experience about a man rediscovering who he is without the love of his life.

Brett Chapman’s The Residue of a Relationship, explores the leftovers of love – the artifacts of a relationship – that ultimately change who we are as people.

Reminiscent of a John Green or Woody Allen movie, Chapman’s visual diary is campy to the point of cheesiness, but gets away with it because of how utterly charming it is. Perhaps what makes it most special is the way it was captured and how it reveals the extent cinema has influenced our expectation of love.

Shattering our expectations about love through the cinematic lens, he forces us to realize that even with grand gestures, the guy doesn’t always get the girl in the end. Further still, it’s not heroic to hold onto someone who doesn’t love you back.

Let the past be just that and while there may be little things left behind – a song, a movie, a photo – the real residue of a relationship is who you become thereafter.