The Unabsorbed Past
Synopsis
In a laboratory, a wind turbine blade oscillates. The more it approaches exhaustion, the more it seems to reveal a form of vitality, while its digital twin continues its tireless rotation. A crate of pitayas, two postcards from the colonial era, and the approach of a typhoon quietly shift the coordinates of the place.
At the edge of the plantations, wind turbines, artificial lights, birds, winds, and infrastructures compose a landscape where human and non-human memories gradually cease to be distinguishable. An abandoned blade recalls a stranded whale. An engineer offers it a final salute.
In the forest of machines, the master of the Nuo continues a ritual procession for the multispecies disturbances still carried by the winds. The ghosts of yesterday continue to inhabit the infrastructures of today.
Credits
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producer : François Bonenfant
- Music Composers : Yi Zhang, Hwasong Lim
- Screenwriter : Yi Zhang
- Director of Photography : Nu Ha
- Sound Recordist : Hwasong Lim
- Editors : Charles Tristram, Yi Zhang
- Sound editors : Benjamin Poilane, Jülide Tüfenk
- Animation : Nu Ha, Yi Zhang, Aurélien Binauld, Yihan Wang
- Sound Mixer : Yannick Delmaire
- Sound design : Yi Zhang
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 2026
- Runtime : 26 min
- Color type : Color
News & awards
Selections (1)
IDFA - International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
The Netherlands, 2026
IDFA Competition for Short Documentary
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