On the Sea

Name: On the Sea
Director: Juan Vilar
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2026-04-27

2026 · 8 min · Documentary

A film essay that approaches cinema as a water current, revisiting a body of previous essay films through the recurring image of water—rivers, seas, tides, and flows—to explore cinema as a fluid space of memory, movement, and transformation.

Directed by Juan Vilar · Written by Juan Vilar

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