Stones

Year: 2022
Country: Moldova
Director: Darya Lukina
Genre: short
Runtime: 6 min.
On the very first day, Vadim began to build towers of stones. But it wasn't until the end of our stay there that I seemed to have solved the mystery of the pyramids. Probably, these are the stairs to the sky that should be made of solid stone and at the same time very fragile. Existing only in the balance. Breaking perception — turning heaviness into fluff. And in full accord with gravity.

The second stone was laid by Katya — when she went to her classes with Asaf (the language does not turn to call this Shaolin "contact improvisation classes") she brought a bag of stones. We moved these stones, then the stones moved us. Sometimes we became monolithic with them, and sometimes we forced them to stick to one point in space.

There were also special stones, stones with arrows drawn. Directed stones, stones-vectors, within the indivisibility of which there was already movement.

We spent the whole week in silence. And this video was invented by me and filmed in silence, too. They explained themselves with their hands, drawings, but I was sure that everything would work out, because we didn't talk, but listened.

And we also had only a couple of hours for filming between the rains)

I would like to dedicate this video to matter — when it manifests itself as a source of knowledge. And the masters. Those whose bodies themselves become knowledge in order to transmit it to others without distortion, knowledge — as a physical quantity, as a weight — from stone to stone.