Filmmaker Statement

This film was motivated by the desire to capture intimacy with another, such intimacy that is endowed with joy and pleasure. But such closeness also comes with pain and darkness. And it seems that the reluctance to face this pain deprives one of the intimate connection they paradoxically crave. Oleg Stepanov's film captures its characters on the border between reality and a detached awareness of this reality, in an attempt to establish the usual verbal contact, to find points of contiguity and connection. But language quickly reaches its limit. The director, together with the actors, creates spaces in which we are either as close as possible and feel how a barely perceptible breath seeps through the silence, then suddenly we seem to endlessly fall down in the impossibility of grasping at least something stable and safe. The true manifests itself somewhere between words, beyond images, it increasingly pulses with the irreversibility of the encounter with inevitable.