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Sid Iandovka | Russia, Switzerland | 2016 | 6' |

| IFFR 2019

“The surface of a thing is not part of it. Thus the surface of water does not form part of the water, nor does it consequently form part of
the atmosphere. Then what divides water from air?” To Leonardo da Vinci’s
question, the poet Daniil Charms answered: “The water is like a wheel.”

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