{"id":8071,"date":"2011-04-21T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T05:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=8071"},"modified":"2026-10-16T13:34:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T12:34:32","slug":"toby-tatum-the-sealed-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=8071","title":{"rendered":"Toby Tatum &#8211; <em>The Sealed World<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/04_2011\/TobyTatumTheSealedWorld.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/TobyTatumTheSealedWorld.jpg\" alt=\"TobyTatumTheSealedWorld.jpg\"\/><\/a><br \/><ahref=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/04_2011\/TobyTatumTheSealedWorld.mp4\" target=\"_blank\">The Sealed World (2009, 217MB, 5:59 min)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very nicely executed short film from UK film-maker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tobytatum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toby Tatum<\/a>,<br \/>\nwho is clearly both gifted and imaginative.<br \/>\nIt brings to mind an attempt to conjure in a distilled way the atmosphere of<br \/>\npieces like Lucile Hadzihalilovic&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Innocence_(2004_film)\" target=\"_blank\">Innocence<\/a>.<br \/>\n(and nothing wrong with this; I&#8217;m using Innocence as a point of comparison<br \/>\nrather than asserting influence)<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not sure it entirely succeeds &#8211; the act of distillation, of reduction to<br \/>\nsuggestion, to atmosphere (ironically the very richness of the prize-winning music by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abi_Fry\" target=\"_blank\">Abi Fry<\/a><br \/>\ncontributes to this) means it ends up feeling laid on a tad thickly.<br \/>\nNonetheless it&#8217;s work that demands &#038; deserves attention and I&#8217;ll be interested to see where<br \/>\nTatum heads next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sealed World (2009, 217MB, 5:59 min) Very nicely executed short film from UK film-maker Toby Tatum, who is clearly both gifted and imaginative. It brings to mind an attempt to conjure in a distilled way the atmosphere of pieces &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=8071\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,72,17,24,127,107,9,88,112,126,68,49,47,29,43,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-audio","category-community","category-documentary","category-fantasy","category-fiction","category-film","category-landscape","category-light","category-memory","category-music","category-nature","category-observational","category-performance","category-portraiture","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8071"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12110,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8071\/revisions\/12110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}