stillness (working title)

country - north macedonia
partner - umpaci
project manager - kiril gjozev

The project with the working title Stillness is conceived as a poetic and experimental audiovisual essay exploring loneliness, alienation, and the search for silence. It approaches stillness both as a physical space of solitude and as an inner state, a need to withdraw from the noise of the world.

During the development of the film, we plan to conduct research and conversations with elderly people as well as young adults aged 25–35. Through these encounters, we want to explore questions of identity, solitude, and alienation: does alienation come from the outside world, or does it emerge from within us? Is it something we sometimes desire at certain moments in life, or something imposed on us by our surroundings? What does alienation feel like?

These conversations will become an essential part of the research process and will guide the creation of the film. Rather than starting from a fixed script, the project will grow out of collected voices, impressions, spaces, and emotional states.
Visually, the film will combine minimalistic and atmospheric imagery: mountain landscapes, open fields, and spaces without human presence, especially at the beginning. Gradually, a human figure may appear within the landscape, distant, quiet, engaged in a minimal action, or simply present in stillness. Through this contrast between vast spaces and fragile human presence, the film will explore the tension between isolation and belonging.