Synopsis
Based on the poem Arriving by Gillian Sze, the film delves into her family’s history and studies the relationship between her father, grandfather and herself. Through the examining of an inherited stamp collection, the cultivating of plants and the preparing of wonton soup, the piece investigates the mechanics of capture and the interwoven resonances between film and poetry.
A word from Tënk
The poetic language enhances, offers a new existence to the words by extracting them of their common use, of their primary function, even more broadly of their condition. Memories, through an enchantment of gestures, objects and daily habits, produce an effect of the same sort.
Recalling the reminiscences described by Gillian Gze in the poem Arriving, A Drownful Brilliance of Wings explores the interplay between physical and mental spaces. While the images captured by Sofia Bohdanowicz invite us to confront the material and concrete world, the poet's words resonate and offer us new interpretative possibilities. Mixed, verses and images reveal the intimate, the implicit, and allow us to go beyond the obvious which limits our sensory experience.
By making us aware of these different layers of meaning, the film seems to bring out a statement: that of reconsidering what surrounds us. It is a call to rehabilitate the banal. It is our turn to make room for contemplation, to listen to the unspoken, to pay attention to the fleeting, to seize the sensations and movements that sometimes slip by at the limits of our consciousness.
Yulia Kaiava
Tënk's editorial assistant
