Stuttering Fluidity

a film by Stefan Pavlović

Experimental documentary |  90’
The Netherlands, France
expected release: 2027
Production: artTrace, Momento
In development
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Synopsis

A horse is about to give birth. She has almost completely lost her eyesight. I spend the night before with her in the stable. We have a conversation about what we see, hear, remember and dream of. The currents of our conversation become the lines airplanes leave behind in the sky, the underwater bubbles coming out of the sci-fi ocean floor, the currents of water-landscapes on other planets. In other words: we drift off, together.

I look through my camera for the origins of stuttering; in water and its many fractured reflections, in the B-tone of my first clarinet through which I practice to breath, in a horse’s horizontal iris, and in the stutters I encounter.

A gentle road-movie, from the stable at night, to the edges of the Mississippi River, the 1953 flood in Zeeland, The Netherlands, to the Drina in Bosnia. A film full of double comma’s, full of little worlds and islands, of beginnings and endings. A double comma does what the period cannot: an open ending, a bump, a slight interruption; it alters time and holds the word, and sometimes the entire sentence, in midair – like a stutter.