Skip to Content
Top

Fylm All I Wanna Do 1998 Mtrjm Kaml May Syma - May Syma 1 ⇒ [ AUTHENTIC ]

"If you're watching this, I finally learned how to fly. Rewind me if you miss me."

May doesn't answer. She points the camera at her own wrist, where she has drawn a symbol in blue ballpoint pen: a circle bisected by a jagged line. "Syma is the frequency between radio stations. The static you hear right before a storm takes out the power. It's the sound Juliet was listening to when she jumped."

All I Wanna Do (1998) Logline: A VHS tape labeled only "SYMA 1" holds the final, fragmented recording of a teenager named May, who tried to digitize her soul before the millennium turned. May 14, 1998. 11:47 PM. fylm All I Wanna Do 1998 mtrjm kaml may syma - may syma 1

But Juliet is dead. She jumped from the Kaml Street overpass six months ago. May is the one who found the note, folded into a paper crane, hidden inside a mixtape case labeled SYMA 1 .

"Take one," she says. Then she rewinds the tape, records over it. "Take two. is not a movie. It's a manifesto. If I die before graduation, this is why." "If you're watching this, I finally learned how to fly

All I wanna do / is get back to you / underneath the Kaml Street moon / where the trains cut through / and the syma sings you true.

"Or maybe syma is just a word we made up so we wouldn't have to say goodbye ." The second half of the tape— SYMA 1, side B —is mostly darkness. Voices whisper. A car engine idles. Someone is crying, or laughing, or both. "Syma is the frequency between radio stations

May Syma (17, eyeliner sharp enough to cut, hair dyed the black of a wet crow) leans into the lens. She is not smiling.

The tape contains only one song: a demo recording of May's own voice, slowed down to half-speed, singing a cover of "All I Wanna Do" by a forgotten 90s band called The Make-Up. But the lyrics have changed.