Watch The Teaser For DANSE MACABRE Director's HOPE

It was a couple years back now that director Pedro Pires made huge waves with his short film Danse Macabre. A gorgeously shot meditation on death, Danse Macabre teetered in a world somewhere between a dream state and a performance dance piece winning raves from the arthouse and genre worlds alike. It's a piece of art, bluntly, and one that announced the arrival of an enormously talented director.

Pires has been busy on a number of projects since, but the first that will be seen publicly is his new short film Hope, freshly selected to the Toronto International Film Festival.

The fragmented violence of war seen through the eyes of a General on his deathbed. A mind accustomed to a life on the battlefield surrenders to a stream of consciousness, mixing death, brutality, and finally, one last gesture of hope.

The film is based on the award winning play Jimmy, créature de rêve by Marie Brassard.

The first teaser for the film has just arrived and while it is very much a tease it is also a beautiful and haunting one that leaves me hungry for more. Check it out below.