The way that the director describes this short film, Autumn Mists, is a perfect way to describe it, in my opinion. It is built much like any other montage you see today but the structure of the individual shots and how they are put together really sells his description of it.
To represent a state of mind “through drastically changed images in which nature was losing its density and unity.”
The various items and scenes captured, along with the editing, make it feel almost panicked or stressful. How things feel almost unconnected or unordered although still having a structure to it. Each scene shows emotion, especially when the main character first appears. Her emotions and thoughts are shown purely through what we are allowed to see. Various shots of things that can relate to her mental state, much of it being a sort of chaos and breaking.
The use of music in the film also sells it well. The very calm moments of the song fit the sort of calm images and the same for the opposite can be said. When we she her start to sort of panic the music speeds up and becomes broken and intense.
I feel the mix of intense and somber music fits the well-edited shots throughout the film. They are both great into each other and can’t have one without the other.
– Jackson Lester