Born during the lockdown, the film narrates an exodus, through an exiled language like Armenian, and is composed of a single 38-second shot, repeated. The evolution of image and sound become the narration of a border crossing, of a border that the travelers will reach with difficulty and alone:...
Marseille, boulevard d'Athènes, 26 April 2006. Lisbon, S.Mamede, 19 October 2007. Madrid, calle de Atocha, 13 May 2008. Three glances from hotel room windows, three days of unknown passers-by: the street and the bars, meetings and loneliness, loves and missed appointments.
In 'Flòr da Baixa' the past no longer presents itself by overlapping or burning the present, but is part of the image itself, altering and deforming it from within. Thus an old guesthouse with empty windows becomes an echo, a reminder of an image dreamed or seen by others. Flòr is a film about...
