Immortality

Inspired by the ancient Egyptian funerary ritual of the " Opening of the Mouth" and the infant rooting reflex -an involuntary response in which stimulation of the mouth enables feeding and, ultimately, survival-, this video explores life, death, and rebirth through the oral cavity. It reflects on th

If computers could let you live forever, would you? When our minds and memories can be digitized, self-help guru Deepak Chopra and leading robotics engineers envision virtual clones that don't need a body to survive.

A documentary on a garden, on the one who takes care of the garden, on those who take care of the gardener… In this garden, the fruits ripen and rot, old age does its work and the generations jostle.

Missing red on pixels, artificial atoms trapping light. A scientific experiment is layered over open-sea footage; what experiments borrow from us, the environment and non-human beings, and what they bring in return, remains open. The contrast between colors and movement traces the difficulty of conn

A woman is asked to follow a series of instructions. An artist's voice attempts to shape the portrait of a woman, to give a body to what has none. What unfolds reveals what happens when a body is treated as a thing. Venus examines how language and image technologies participate in the production of

The plants and TV screens in Nam June Paik's TV Garden (1974) maintain their current images without dying, rotting, or breaking down through behind-the-scenes maintenance and technological replacement. The chickens, virtually released in TV Garden by us, are also isolated from other living species o

Of the morning, early, magnificent grave. Bewilderment, infatuated by sleep, passion, sunburned mouths, looking for antidotes. Otherwise, if not, long enough to keep the loves. Bird, rupture, mauve, white robin, very untraceable thing. Fill the air with rose or liquid water, falling, flowing. Wet wi

The eternal ice is melting. The glaciers are crying, they vanish in front of our eyes. Heavy machinery is trying to conserve the last blocks of ice by covering them with fabric. A robot Sisyphos coming to an halt. Where are the humans? Created as part of an multimedia installation for Tidal Artshow

As a landscape of distorted colors and shapes unfolds, a voice sings of today. A ghost floating on the water slowly bleeds into the sunlight. "Today" is Young_an's music. The film uses this music as its background. The sound was recorded two years ago during Young_an's performance "활란이를 위하여(For Hwal

An abandoned single-screen cinema projects its own memories onto itself, its architecture haunted by the routines and rhythms of the community it once sustained. Gharnata / Granada reconstructs the afterlife of a cinema in the United Arab Emirates through its digital imprints. Once a gathering place

Allegorical images flash up between black frames: Over this, a sound montage of scraps of conversation and noise. Following the compositional principle of Günter Brus´s "Vienna walk" documented on 8mm film, Ghost Copy synthesizes amateur analogue film material with digital sound fragments

Elegy of place and the family that once inhabited it. Utilizes Super 8 sequences shot 60 years apart. The film's audio comes from a rock cap fern hooked up to a 4-track cassette recorder and distorted. Some of the images were developed in a creek water and wild onion developer. The developer materia

I have been working since 2009 on a long form mixed media film called Chernobyl Journey. It started as a documentary about wildlife in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, but became increasingly autobiographical. Until 2021 my close collaborator on Chernobyl Journey was my editor and friend Marianne Kuopa

The interview begins by summoning Fluxus artist Charlotte Moorman, who died the same year the artist was born. The artist reads Moorman as the first figure to publicly attach media apparatus to her own skin as artistic labor, asking about the currents of thought and life she moved through during her

Shed Skin is a film exploring cultural assimilation through the passing of Velez Nelms's grandmother, Meme, the matriarch of the family who represented its last generation to speak Spanish. Using archival footage of the Florida Everglades from the Miami Dade College Wolfson Collection, produced by H

When I was little, my grandfather used to take us in search of a wonderful flower. This flower has the power to survive by burying itself.

Places form people to tell poetry of their relationship. When people are gone, those places hold their memories. If you listen intently, the poetry reveals itself. I remember my mother saying, 'Do you hear the ghosts trapped in the void?' I have often wondered what the people of the past have in com

A magnificent visual and musical poem, simultaneously timeless and in delicate synchronicity with our devastated present." Nicole Brenez Films that uncompromisingly deal in (and with) death necessarily seem to have fallen out of time, like the dead themselves. Singing in Oblivion takes this idea as

"Tectonics of the Mind" draws a parallel between transgenerational trauma and geological trauma — between the tectonics of the mind and the tectonics of the Earth. Moving between a geological voice and a personal one, the film traces buried family secrets across generations, asking how inherit

Portugal, 1872. The Emperor of Brazil, Pedro II, travels to the city of Porto, and stays at the Grand Hotel du Louvre, property of Maria Henriqueta de Mello Lemos e Alvelos. In the present day, the attempt to make a film about this episode becomes an invocation. Maria Henriqueta is with us. Memories

To face your fear, you must let it enter your life as a Concrete Shape. An onsite video performance by Jesi Jordan created at the Diego Rivera Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City. This film is made using hand made special effects and biodegradable materials such as Oaxacan clay, lava rocks, chicken eg

What makes a world livable? That isn't the right question. "Do Not Go Hungry Into That Good Night" tries to capture the exhaustion of a life filled with monotonous labour, where nothing is left to be experienced, but only extracted. The protagonist is tasked to find a perfect world to inhabit, but o

Animated black and white skull and brain scans, various color portraits of a man's face, images of idle industrial plants, thoracic x-rays, wild abstract drawings and many more motifs scramble at a staccato pace across the screen. It is only on occasion that the single frame montage is interrupted b

A dead body became stuck by a river bank. Its decaying insides still hide a human soul - a miniature of the deceased. Rotting organs part and a tiny creature gets out. Standing on the river bank, it says goodbye to the corpse and sets off on a journey through the post-mortem land.

A group of people wander over a field at the foot of a cloud-covered mountain range. Here and there, swings have been set up in the broad landscape and the people queue up obediently to sit on them for a few rounds. Sarah Francis returns to this scene again and again. In between, we follow a creatio

Documentary essay that intertwines three ideas: a building, a 90 year old man who inhabits it, andecinema as a memory of the Word. The building, the Argentine Cinematheque. Rafael Corral tries to recover a film starring Miguel de Molina, whose ballet he was part of. The Other Memory of the World rec

On 1972 the astronaut Charles Duke landed on the Moon on the Apollo XVI. He was in charge of taking photos of the lunar surface with a high-resolution camera. 'The Sasha' is a film about the human perspective on Earth and our constant struggle with our temporal and spatial limitations. From the expl

How Not to Drown is a short experimental video that unfolds as a forensic reconstruction — assisted by AI — of a long-abandoned project from the 1970s and 1990s. The origins of the work reach further back than initially assumed: to a linoleum floor that, seen through a black-and-white vi

Eleven songs of Illinois, resurrecting ghosts across time and space. Each location borrowed from elsewhere. Among them Norway, Normandy, Lisbon, Ottawa, Peru, and Sandwich, forming the basis of a fragmented landscape study. The film traces the dissonance between ordinary Midwestern spaces and the hi

Beneath the aesthetics of fine art imagery lies a spiritual theme. "N'DOBINE" explores a concept inspired by Ọdịnala - the traditional and spiritual worldview of the Igbo people of Nigeria (Biafra). The main character (The Traveler) is physically navigating checkpoints within his own heart space - r

Returning to a place shaped by memory, I film different generations of my family on Super 8. Between images of the present, fragments of a past that persists, and an audio diary sent to a friend, the return becomes an intimate reflection on what changes and what, somehow, comes back.

Drawing on Peter Sloterdijk's concept of air terror, the video work examines the myth of the innocence of distance: the idea that the absence of direct contact with a victim turns an act of violence into a technical operation stripped of personal responsibility. During the aerial bombardments of the

Offerings, By The Thames (2026) explores the process of collecting, consuming, digesting and remaking historical objects and archival imagery into new works. The film is a visualisation of an artistic practice rooted in collecting, and an attempt to translate what it feels like to inhabit this proce

When future medicine allows people to live past the human body's shelf life, a young woman visits her grandmother in the hospital and is forced to question the value of immortality when you still end up in a box.

Set against an otherworldly landscape, this experimental short traces the metamorphosis of a larva into a mosquito, unraveling a layered exploration of identity, migration, and estrangement. Through a sensorial, hybrid form that blends microscopic footage with alienesque terrains, the film follows t

A journey across Morocco, from the desert to the ocean and up into the mountains. Ancestral traces of the human–animal relationship surface within contemporary landscapes, where ancient sacred imagery coexists with modern exploitation and tourist waste. The film moves between myth and decay, s

On August 1st, 2008, Marc B. was seen for the last time near Dorwin Falls in Rawdon. He vanished without leaving a trace like thousand of others around the world. They are called ''Johatsu'', the Evaporated.

If thoughts opened up onto dreams, one would look up and see in a cloud resting on the hillcrest an elephant poised to butt a riverbank. Handmade crystals of argentum painted on old acetate in the dark. Hopes of seeing the light. Falls back apart on itself. An utterance of royal poet: for fame home

An essay exploring the idea of immortality and ephemerality.

In this first segment of the a series, an exploration of nature and the industrial, Rita Morais invites us to delve into the reminiscences of a gold mine excavated during the Roman Empire in El Bierzo, on the Iberian Peninsula. Accompanied by a small guide, we travel in 16mm through the labyrinthine

It's something – and there's a lot of it! The arrival of green, slimy blobs unsettles a self-indulgent middle-class cottage community. Magnifica: Passive Intruder follows the collision between Finnish cottagers and a mysterious organism known as Pectinatella magnifica, as the residents scrambl

2048. Google owns most of the planet and is now run by Mark Zuckerberg. He finds a cure for death, through a digital immortality software that allows him to download himself into a hologram. While it is reserved for an elite group of rich and powerful men, a group of hackers seizes the source code o

A maid is suspected of murdering her former employer. Questioned by the police, she will reveal the existence of a supernatural power.

In the Sierra of Santa Catarina located east of the lowlands of Mexico, a volcano erupts. The crack of the earth is heard in the middle of the night. Everything rumbles and the sky begins to tint red. Two adolescents emerge from within the volcano. Centuries later they wake. It's the last day; when

In a forgotten Swiss valley, an evil wind haunts the daily lives of former Italian asbestos factory workers, who still breathe its invisible fibers. Archival images of progress and greed, and contemporary accounts of forgotten hopes and denied rights, weave this tale of ongoing injustice, celebratin

A stark human figure stands in contrast to the expressive terrain in this one-shot moment of time. Organic layers of water, earth, and sunlight interact and transform the landscape into abstract textures while they drift upward into a cloudy field of white. The figure also erodes, blending into the

10-minute screening version of a 22-minute video. Total Eclipse and the Heart is inspired by the solar totality of 2024. During an eclipse gone wrong, humans are drawn into nature and disappear, sinking in water and crumbling like rocks. Moon rocks float by, the eclipse morphs from one strange versi

Sybille promises her nephew that they'll see each other again in the future, when they'll know how to reverse death.

Iryna Myenova decided to go to the transhuman company to sign a contract to froze her 98-year old mother. This process should happen when heart stops beating but the brain is still alive for a few minutes. She did that in hope that in the future technology would be so advanced that it will be possib

A woman in a hypothetical future has become almost immortal thanks to the developments in technology. She ponders the meaning of life and whether it will ever make sense to significantly extend life expectancy. Is this a dream or a frightening possible reality?

Between Iran, Bolivia, and the United States, a son follows the traces of his father after his death. Goodbye Party is intimate, fragmented, filled with silences and questions. It is a farewell that never fully comes to an end, an invitation to look between the lines.

What can clone itself, never grows old or dies, is neither plant nor animal, has no mouth or soul, and defies all human classification and understanding? It's the freshwater polyp known as Hydra! Using beguiling microscopic images and a twitchy electronic score, we get closer than ever to the only l

"no more room in hell" began with initial research conducted at the archive of horror director George A. Romero (Dir. Night of the Living Dead) housed at the University of Pittsburgh. Extending research beyond the archive, the film examines the implications of zombiehood in relation to industry, lat

An unearthed time capsule, containing long-buried footage of the maker's youthful self, reveals an exquisite corpse with nature as collaborator. A metaphysical pas-de-deux in which decay undermines the integrity of the image but in the process initiates a transmutation.

Between 1950 and 1960, members of Opus Dei arrived in Colombia, seeking to expand their reach across the Americas under the shadow of Franco's dictatorship. In 2021, a group of 43 South American women came forward with accusations against the organization, denouncing it for human trafficking and exp

The search for a journalist who infiltrated one of the most repressive governments in Guatemala delves into the memory of a country forced to silence. Throughout the 1970s, the journalist Elías Barahona, a.k.a. " The Mole", infiltrated the heart of one of the most repressive governments in Guatemala

In the 1970s, a new planning policy forced residents of several villages in the interior of Gaspésie to leave their homes and move to the coast. Félix Lamarche explores the consequences of this brutal, disturbing event. While the episode is now largely forgotten, it had a profound impa

Fragments of a collective post-human dream construct a world that straddles hyper-technological, ecological, and mythological dimensions.

If I Die a Thousand Times" is a series of video performances, within which the body is constantly faced with nature attempting to merge into it. The plot of the film represents the path of the soul, as described in the "Tibetan Book of the Living and Dying". How you live determines the way you die.

In the Garden of Hesperides, a fruit, capable of granting immortality to whoever ate it, once grew. This garden, located somewhere off the coast of West Africa, was guarded by a dragon with one hundred heads. Through the use of bio-sonification of banana trees, a monoculture crop in the Canary Islan

What's left of love in an eternal life? In a 1960s talk show a scientist discusses the future possibility of indefinite human life. In the meantime we see his memories of a short love affair.

A door opens in a dream. The scent of sea breeze lingers in the air. Chunyan, a woman from Enping, China, moves through her newfound life on the multicultural shores of Manzanillo, along Costa Rica's Caribbean coast. In a joyful mise-en-scène, past and present soften, making space to reimagin

Sahar tirelessly explores volcanic landscapes to find a rare mineral. But what she finds out shakes her research, her connection with the atmosphere and our Milky Way.

Carolina returns to Costa Rica to try to rebuild the relationship with her father. After a few months, her father is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. At that moment, Carolina meets Ifigenia, an archaeologist expert in the stone spheres found in the south of Costa Rica; the country's great enigma. S

A lonely middle-aged man reflects on the transience of his biological existence. Fearing to leave no traces and no descendants behind in the world, he puts his last savings and hope in a procedure offered by a mysterious biotech company.

Sun Rays End in Plant Leaves is a multilayered video essay created as an intervention within the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art archive and library. It reflects on the shifting relationships between humans, the more-than-human world, land and structures of power. The work traces how living natu

THE YEARS is a poetry film exploring stages of life through various decades as experienced by different actors in a non-chronological order and time frame. Historical Super 8mm film footage mixes with digital recordings as the poem is voiced by the filmmaker/author. Questions of the impermanence of

"The seasons had not decided on their endings and beginnings, so we lived in the space between." A letter to a loved one exploring the unity and separation that comes with life and loss.

Peeling back the shrouded image, "Exhumation" is a reanimation of long-lost desire. A response to news of a celebrity paternity suit and the mythology adhered to it, "Exhumation" obsesses over buried memories to create one's own monster from memory. Re-composed of images chemically treated to disint

Over the course of a day, Hoàng and Hân move from a café to the water's edge, drifting into a quiet, uneasy romance. Later, as their time together is retold, the details begin to shift, and Hân becomes harder to locate within the story. Who is she, in the end? Tender and se

Birth of the Hive Queen is a dreamlike veneration of trans motherhood, magic and futurity. The cyclical short film tells the story of Amina, a trans sex-worker who is supernaturally imbued with a uterus. Transformed through self recognition and actualization rooted in memories of childhood, Amina's

As branches die, as birds color, who would dare accuse the sun of lying?

We all grow old eventually. But do we really have to? Could humans be immortal one day? Through the work of global leading scientists on three incredible kinds of animal that don't really age like we do, Lifespan reveals some of the surprising causes of human aging, and what we could do about it. Th

The idea of suspension is evoked on shifting registers – as levitation, cessation, preservation, and suspense – and located in sites whose identities slip as we track through a space within a space.

Aftersong is a film-poem based on the writings of the English nature writer Richard Jefferies and the music of French composer Lili Boulanger. It is a meditation on the lingering afterimages left behind by the dead where the tension between absence and presence continues to endure across time, rippl

Salistratum is an ethnographic essay film that examines the geological and ecological role of salt in the landscape of Chott el-Djerid, Tunisia, as well as its universal importance for human culture and the nature of human perception more generally. Equally, salt also acts as the substrate that give

Ewa is a 10-year-old girl living in a high building in a quiet town. She's an odd, lonely child and for good reason: she's convinced of being a vampire. Fascinated by Hugo, 15, she dreams of turning him into a vampire too, so that she can overcome her loneliness. When Ewa opens up to him, she gets b

While the chances of immortality may be very thin, hundreds of people, aged 2 to 101, from around the world, have already committed their bodies or brains to cryonics, over the past 50 years. Frozen in liquid nitrogen, they put their trust, lives and fortunes into the promise of being revived one da

THYLA is an attempt to create a coherent whole from primarily independent elements, similar to the components of an ecosystem, which in their entirety form a complex interweaving. Formally, there are three basic components: Super 8 footage of a natural floodplain landscape, color charts and codes fr

This film is part of 'We Live Inside a Dream', an ongoing multidisciplinary visual project exploring liminality and altered states of consciousness. Drawing on personal experience and research into Near-Death Experiences, psychology, quantum physics and neuroscience, the project examines the instabi

A star, a tear, a woman, a child: fragments of an unknown creation story unfold across cosmic and organic landscapes. Deneb is a wordless journey through transformation, where celestial bodies, human forms and ancient symbols become part of the same generative process. Moving between the vastness of

LANDFORMS unearths the physical remains of past and future geological strata. The film explores two landscapes, an industrial rock quarry turned recreational fossil hunting park, in which 380-million-year-old fossils were discovered beneath the rocks where once flowed a shallow sea, and a public wat

Volcanoes be in Sicily And South America I judge from my Geography— Volcanos nearer here A Lava step at any time Am I inclined to climb— A Crater I may contemplate Vesuvius at Home. -- Emily Dickinson A fantastical journey from the filmmaker's childhood re-enactment of "The Fall of Pompe

In 1952, the last fluent speaker of a sign language found only on Martha's Vineyard died. What remains are the recollections of the residents and allies who preserve its legacy. Through a mix of oral history, landscape photography, and sonic ethnography, the film layers interviews with members of th

The small medusa 'Turritopsis dohrnii' constitutes the central figure of the video. This enigmatic entity is considered as theoretically immortal, capable of regenerating itself in full in order to indefinitely reinitiate its cycles of life, in the manner of reverse metamorphoses. The film proposes

With an amusing sense of drama, The Houses That Are Left illustrates Silver's technique of building an obscure narrative into a complex net of miscellaneous texts and images. Unfolding throughout the tape is the story of two friends who come together to try to figure out how to live in the modern wo

An autobiographical fable at the cross-section between SCI-FI and Memory Film. The film explores the journey of two dreamers trapped between Past and Present, between Dream and Reality. It combines excerpts from an immigration journal, found text and images suspended in a dystopian dark space.

10 years after the death of my old dog Sydney, i breathe life back into her for a few brief moments. Handmade ceramic figure mixed with ashes from the cremated body of S, body warmth. After one hour, the borrowed warmth dissipates into the environment. Music: Takuro Iwamoto

The experimental film explores the concept of the future of ageing, increasing life expectancy and life extension. Visually juxtaposing architecture and physical space against interviews with a diverse range of people; from biomedical scientists and evolutionary anthropologists, to the director's fa

AUGMENTED is an experimental short, shot completely on 16mm, that analyzes the commonalities and differences between medical augmentation and Transgender alignment surgeries and resulting bodies. Transmale author Max Wolf Valerio in conversation under layered visuals, camp re-enactment, collage anim

A rework between Hollis Frampton's Information(1966) and Jason Lescalleet's Waves(2010). Affairs of darkness and silence.

What Remains (2023) is a 3-minute video poem addressing the issue of "becoming-with." What and how do we become-with in a world dominated by technology and spectacle, development and decay? How do bodies figure into constructions of progress and world design?The filmmaker's archival recordings mix w

Nai no Do is a narrative film situated on the coastline of Kochi, Japan, an area threatened by the predicted Nankai Trough earthquake and tsunami. Set in 2056, the film imagines a pilgrimage that develops from the walk of the Guardians, researchers who have been walking and recording Kochi's landsca

'Where Can We Be Found?' focuses on the state of Lebanese Cedar trees ('Cedrus libani') in Lebanon today, exploring the various ecologies that the tree inhabits and co-inhabits. The work distinguishes the tree as an ecological being from the various ways in which it has been used as an emblem and ot

Tides of Cashmere is a documentary-style experimental moving image that explores material flow and somatic memory. Tracing the origins of the Ordos cashmere industry, the camera focuses on the cashmere goats and the meticulous craftsmanship of sorting, washing, carding, spinning, and weaving. It bri

"U Sugghiu" an amphibious and anthropomorphic creature that inhabits the marine and marshy waters around Catania (Sicily), was last sighted in 2013. A monster, the offspring of a demon and an extinct creature, it is said to feed on human flesh. It is ancient, shapeless, constantly remodeling itself

Centuries ago, wandering dervishes known as the Qalandars travelled from Khorasan and Iran into Anatolia. Rejecting property, status and respectable identity, they practised "dying before you die": stripping away the self so that another form of life could begin. Through minimalist animation and bil

The term Alignment Problem in artificial intelligence studies refers to the challenge of ensuring AI systems' goals and behaviors align with human values and intentions. In this experimental short film this concept serves as the through-line for an articulated dialogue between a male and a female en

souvenir is made from hand-processed B&W 16 mm film hand-coloured with photochemical toners, and incorporates found sound. souvenir examines the evanescence of memory and the process of forgetting.

Ultratattile – The Skin of Water explores the relationship between the human body and water through the idea of surface. Drawing on scientific research into the skin as a biological barrier and surface tension as a physical interface, the film combines observations of rivers in Piedmont with b

In the universe. In the world. In the Philippines. In the north. In the island of Luzon. In the Cordillera region. In the province of Benguet. In the city of Baguio. There were cinemas. What remains of those cinemas? What stories do they tell? What do they show us? What do they make us feel? A film

The demise of a state film institute coincides with the death of desire for the young caretaker of its abandoned premises, and his subsequent return to desire ignited by the specter of World Cinema.

An immigrant butterfly in the UK is getting involved in a car accident. Will she be transformed again?

Forest, Analogue is a black-and-white 16mm film shot in a woodland, hand-processed using a developer made primarily from locally gathered nettles, with the final sequence made using the phytogram process. Through a fictional voiceover, the film imagines a roll of 16mm film discovered in an ancient f

The Hydra Conundrum This video was produced at The Royal College of Art Graduate Diploma (Level 6) as a project outcome. Video Production by Maha Satish Voiceover credits - Maha Satish & Gabriel Mansfield Hydra is a genus of small freshwater cnidarians known for its extraordinary regenerative abilit

Caves of Our Insides explores how our bodies are linked with the Earth. We are embodied in, with, and within planetary networks, processes, and elements that sustain and shape us. Our bodies carry the memory of Earth's deep past. The iron in our blood and the iron in the Earth's crust share a common

An employee of God takes a break from heaven's bureaucracy and spends some time on Earth. Through the eyes of an angel, the mundane realms can be more mesmerizing than the rigidity within a perfect (and repetitive) paradise.

Set in the Mediterranean, J.I. posits a world destabilized by the advent of biological immortality, a gift of life from a mysterious new species. Part solutionist satire, part transhuman tragedy, it features fictionalized versions of Buckminster Fuller, Ray Kurzweil and Rachel Carson. The start poin

Two eccentric scientists pursue radically different paths toward the same audacious goal: ending human aging. As they confront scientific skepticism, their own aging, and the loss of loved ones, their quest for eternal youth becomes deeply personal.

Between two floors of a stairwell, neither going up nor down, Anna relentlessly scrubs fluid stains from the walls. All dirt must disappear.

MIRA is a magical realist short that contemplates the relationship between the life cycle of galaxies, the immortal jellyfish, and a young marine biologist's own mind as she risks her life to pursue the work she loves.

Valdez's first directed short film, shot on Super 8mm, explores the shifting landscapes of memory. The characters you see are wanderers: Skylar and Anna Maria-- who is also Angel, one presence existing all at once. Both are held within a single yet continuous plane of being. Moments unfold across bo

Shaping a memoir of my personal return, in the jasmine vines is an assertion that the amalgam that makes my complex identity belongs, gifted by my grandfather and his story and honoured by the generations following his. Forming an imagery of complex memory, archive, story and imagination, this film

A God awakens. Two lovers meet next to unknown shores. They have one wish, which is to make their love eternal.The world is close to end.

At the edge of Shirahama, a coastal tourist town in Japan, an aging scientist works to unlock the biological secret of immortality held in the life cycle of a tiny jellyfish. At a temple in Kyoto, a Zen priest contemplates the metaphysical immortality held within a single breath.

A mystical journey of a powerful shaman from the deep jungle to the cosmos, based upon a very ancient Peruvian legend. The old man wanted to find a way to heal people's souls more profoundly so he sat under a tree and started to meditate for such a long time that at some point a vine sprouted from h