2002 Great Lakes Independent Film Festival

Stop Complaining

World Premiere
Category: Experimental  4min
Director: Steve Merglewski

“STOP complaining” is a short experimental film by Steve Merglewski. Imagine being able to project all of your thoughts and feelings onto a screen for people to view.  Moving images containing the most mundane activities, to your darkest fears, anger and frustrations’. People would be able to watch your psychosis unravel. “STOP complaining” attempts to delve inside the many complexities of an ordinary man’s imagination.  This film focuses heavily on re-creating the contrasting images and sounds that constantly play and replay in your head. “STOP complaining”  deals with that moment when the body takes a rest and the brain kicks into overdrive, whether you’re day-dreaming or dozing off to sleep. The beauty and peacefulness of everyday, natural elements contrast one person’s stress and anguish trying to find his place in life.  Layering symbolic visuals together with numerous subliminal images transform the viewer into a fantasy-like dream world. By constructing and manipulating the images, sounds and pacing of "STOP complaining" in a frenzied, nonlinear fashion, a brief glimpse into Steve Merglewski’s ‘stream of consciousness’ can be seen.

Director: Steve Merglewski
Steve Merglewski is a graduate of Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant. He has been a video production editor/graphic artist for 10 years- working in both broadcast and post-production environments. “STOP complaining” is Steve’s first venture into the world of short films.  He is an avid collector of vintage 8mm/Super8mm/16mm cameras and projectors…as well as a guitarist/musician.  He lives with his wife Mary Ellen in a suburb of Detroit, where he is working on his next short film