Cooee Design Ball Vase 20cm Black

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We get so busy and absorbed in our own challenges and difficult lives that it becomes easy to forget they were important in our lives," said Baram. He was as much a father as a grandfather to me," he continued. "But I took for granted that he would be around forever. Life got in the way of visits, phone calls and letters... until it was too late."

Sadly, our (film) industry often reflects this marginalization," Baram said. "Casting this film highlighted a poignant example." Ball and Vase" is "Oscar-qualified," and has already been screened for Academy Award voters in Los Angeles and New York, according to Baram, who noted that his film is less than 40 minutes long, which qualifies it in the Academy' Best Short Film category. I really wanted the viewer to spend longer moments with Ed and feel the emotional state that he was going through," said Baram.Ed, the character partly inspired by Baram's grandfather, is a 92-year-old former magician. The film tells the story of two days in what has become his simple and rather lonely life. And Baram knows a lot about magic. He is a magician whose recent show is based on accounts about a high society woman in who hosted parlor magic shows in 1895.

It is so easy for many of us to forget that they still share the same longings for connection, love, curiosity for life, desires for growth as any young adult, but the opportunities afforded the younger are often nonexistent for the elderly. Also, he was best man at the wedding of magician and illusionist Criss Angel, a Las Vegas headliner who has starred in several television specials. Austin Pendleton, whose movie credits include "What's Up Doc?," "My Cousin Vinny," "Catch-22" and "Guarding Tess," stars as Ed in the film. In our culture, the elderly, especially those without means, are often marginalized," he added. "A significant percentage of Americans over 80 live in nursing homes, alone and often forgotten.Ball and Vase" was named after the classic illusion where a ball vanishes and then magically reappears. In the movie, it plays a symbolic role when Ed decides to "reappear" at one of the places he used to frequent.