“Permanent Center of Gravity”
was completed entirely in exile, shot in Italy as part of LagunaFilmLab, and had its world premiere at theVenice Film Festival (Venice Days).
The film is a nocturnal journey through the Venetian lagoon, a space suspended between water and sky, darkness and light. Guided by a wandering voice, it moves among children, lovers, fishermen, and solitary figures, observing how tenderness, resilience, and meaning persist in ordinary gestures even amidst fear and displacement. Parallel to this, a darkroom becomes a space of creation, where analogue photographs are born from light, affirming that uncertainty and fragility are inseparable from any act of life and art. I am drawn to cinema as a form of reflection and resistance. I search for moments where the personal intersects with the political, where beauty and human connection persist despite chaos, and where the small, fleeting gestures of everyday life hold weight against the darkness of our times. My work is modest in scale but attentive to the unseen and intimate truths of the world, seeking to illuminate the fragile light that continues to resist.
