PIRMAIS TILTS

This beautiful film essay is a love song to celluloid, for its ability to capture reality, light, shapes, the everyday nature of small gestures, and to withstand the passing of time. In this world in which our rushed lives are inundated with digital technologies and hyperconnectivity, Pakalnina makes a claim for unhurried observation, the ability to see how we physically and emotionally relate with our surroundings and those who inhabit it, and how analog devices hold the ability to return us to a more human sense of time and existence. (JFM)