Birth of the Seanéma

Hypnotic experimental film that gives a completely new meaning to the concept of inertia. Looking at the sea also gets a new meaning. In the film, the sea is the place where all memories of every being and of all things stay. From this all-encompassing memory, images appear entwined with a story about a lost city. The memories of the city’s dwellers, their dreams and their emotions enter into vulnerable links. For the film maker, the sea is not just a metaphor. Her love of the sea is also concrete, as is her love of moving images. The fathomless depths of the sea fascinate her and stimulate her reflections. For this film, she investigates whether moving images can also have the same unfathomable nature; an inexhaustible source of dreams and memories. The film is outspokenly experimental and poetic in a way that is still fairly rare in Southeast Asia, yet it certainly does not follow Western or Japanese examples just like that. The meditative quality indicates a conscious singularity. (GjZ)