Mono No Aware

Synopsis

The passing of Georg’s wife opens a portal that devours five people and interweaves their fates. Unknowingly linked by their intolerable isolation and guidance from the wife’s spirit, their paths cross in earthly conflicts. Incapable of dealing with these encounters, the events ultimately lead to the death of a young man, acceptance of the self, and a reunion in another world.

Statement

Literally “the pathos of things”, and also translated as “an empathy toward things”, or “a sensitivity to ephemera”, is a Japanese term for the awareness of impermanence (無常, mujō), or transience of things, and both a transient gentle sadness (or wistfulness) at their passing as well as a longer, deeper gentle sadness about this state being the reality of life.

Credits

Director Till Kleinau | DOP Katja Tauber | Germany 2021 | Length 39′ | Format 1:2.35

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