Zero Pilnik

A Brazilian filmmaker in Berlin re-enacts past sexual abuse in different versions to process the trauma.

West Berlin, 1967: Shirin’s husband is desperate for her to make a good impression on his new German work colleagues, but protests against the Shah of Iran’s visit to Berlin and a misunderstanding about a missing ring cast suspicion on the Middle Easterners, sending the party spiralling into disaster.

From the director: An Object at Rest follows the life of a stone as it travels over the course of millennia, facing nature's greatest obstacle: human civilization. My final thesis film at CalArts!