IMPASSENGER

The first shot shows reflections on the water — a vague glistening in the night. Immediately thereafter is a take of a woman tentatively clasping her handbag. She seems strangely alienated, homeless. The gestures are what begins to speak in the distorting mirror of a diffused emotional state. The camera´s gaze remains fixated on this protagonist whose own gaze is turned inward. In longer, in between takes, a snow-covered landscape shifts into the image - powerful trees with the wind blowing through them - a sublime-cerebral tableau. Broad wafts of mist become caught on the roots and crystalize in...