Mater inerta

In the shadow of the forest, a flash goes through the darkness making the matter vibrate. Air, water and earth tune in to a cycle that begins and ends without anyone noticing. Before, everything was white. Now, it's just a vestige, while time advances and everything transforms. Between the visible and the invisible, everything is on the verge of being born or fading. A murmur in the current. Under the surface of the sea, the sound dissolves, the fish slide like shadows between reflections. The night returns, the stars insist. The light filters between the branches, showing what the gaze does not reach. With each 16mm frame, Pneuma reveals the essence of what persists, inviting us to feel the presence of the invisible that surrounds us.

Herbert, a young man who has just turned 17, faces the task given to him by his literature teacher: the writing of a play. This will cause a collision between what the family expects of him and how he really wants to face his life.

A beech who suffers from a strange form of anorexia writes, for a year, a diary in his own bark. In a world convulsed by climate collapse, his fragile body becomes a mirror of our struggle to adapt.