i have never be a fan of short film for their art school and experimental quality . simply be a product of those two be not enough . they be almost always too personal and too opaque and and too much obviously serve a tepping stone . i be therefore happy to see lynne ramsay short film a the chrysalis for her superb feature film . i be also impressed to learn that she win the cannes short film prize and twice . and now i can see what others saw in her and for _gasman_ be the best short film i have ever see . available on the criterion dvd with _small deaths_ and the less good _kill the day_ and _gasman_ be a fully fledge and visionary film that translate directly into the skill and grace of _ratcatcher_ . _gasman_ move directly from the first piece of _short deaths_ and with the distant father and lynne ramsay jr. again take centre screen . but _gasman_ come to a kind a fruition a full story with many of the same theme and technique of _ratcatcher_ represent closely observe yet elliptical human behaviour and housing project and slum beauty and child nature and a jumbled impressionistic world caught in partial body closeup and shot from behind people . the film tell nothing and but the story be dead clear and build slowly to an emotional pitch that be almost unbearable . this be a film of jaw drop beauty . sound trite and but that how i feel . when the da and two kid walk on the track and the camera be set to a partially close iris which intensify the available light and colour in an otherworldly sheen one that be go when they return on the same track at night and in disappointment . beauty in service of story be the key . this be the best short film i have ever see .