Sweet Trailer For Sean Wainsteim’s ‘Lost For Words’

Good fantasy has been difficult to find ever since the 80s ended. Recently we’ve grown accustomed to associating fantasy with horror, and rarely children’s films like it used to be. The kid’s film market nowadays is over saturated by Disney and Pixar collaborations and severely lacks the spark that it once had. Step back in time thirty years and try to remember the films that maybe you, or your older brothers and sisters grew up on. There were the epics like Labyrinth and The Neverending Story, which were both terrifying in their own right, then there were the even darker ones such as Tron or Dark Castle. The trend continued for about a decade, but slowly gave way to a new generation of kids raised on cartoons and, eventually, computer animation.

It’s rare to come across a film these days that captures the fantastic, though often times frightening atmosphere of those early, supposedly “kid-oriented” movies, but when it does happen, I for one, am all over it. Such is the case with Sean Wainsteim’s new short film Lost For Words. There isn’t much info on the film as of yet, and the sparse website hasn’t given much away either. But we do have a trailer, and it looks absolutely stunning! Recalling the glory days of live action fantasy, Lost For Words appears to be a fantastic ode to countless works of brilliant literature and film. Take a look at what Wainsteim himself had to say, and then check the trailer below.

Via Lost For Words website: This film is a love letter to the time I spent in the library as a child, immersing myself in books, illustrations, music, performance and puppetry that led to a lifelong fascination with storytelling and storytellers.

-William Gutheil