Polynia

When I was young I began to go on long solo trips into the wilderness. Sometimes for months. As I submerged myself in the terrain I realized that there is a strange connection between the inner and the outer landscape. A different kind of knowledge that is tied to the memory of a place. I am fascinated and confused by my experiences. Sometimes I have felt a connection to nothing and everything at the same time, but when I returned to civilization, angst and darkness overwhelmed me. This is somehow the basic conflict of the film and the characters. We have spent centuries building a fortress around ourselves, both psychologically and in raw infrastructure. But what lies beneath this thin layer of reason? The film is a mystic thriller with elements of horror and absurdism, which uses the energy of the genre to engage the audience in a story that leads to question beyond the initial mystery. In an intimate portrait of Dauphine and Gabriel we experience a descent into matter. I am interested in the substance of the body and the physical relations between characters and the space around them. I see a cinematic potential in the membrane between the inner and the outer worlds.