WINDLESS

Bulgarian rapper Fyre plays a young man who returns home amid his family’s disintegration, forced to confront the fragmented yet vivid pieces of his own past – and that of his country –while facing an uncertain future. An audaciously claustrophobic 1:1 aspect ratio reflects the pressure he endures on his homecoming, with slashes in the frame implying everything that is left out, paralleling the idea of collective amnesia. Inspired by Anuk Arudpragasam’s novel, Windless takes the lyrical, introverted tone from that novel to capture the stagnant air of an ungraspable domestic and socio-political reality. There is something of a western twilight in this minimalist, meditative work by Pavel G. Vesnakov, who was also inspired by the poet Louise Glück: “We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory”.