“Chimera“ - A film by Sam Guest and Julia Baylis

Like the mythical beast which shares its name, Sam Guest and Julia Baylis’s short film Chimera is suspended between states. It’s dreamlike and poetic yet rooted in the banal and the familiar – even the tragedy which overshadows its narrative feels, sadly, like the kind of story we expect to catch on local news stations. Like Frankie, its female lead, says: “Kids still die every day.” This may be true, but what the film is really about is what happens next: how the shadow of death hangs over those left behin