Aquarela

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In Aquarela ( ‘watercolour’), award-winning director Victor Kossakovsky draws on the centrality of water and colour to human life – and imagination. We are taken on a journey across the globe where in every scene, in every careful, devoted frame, water and colour are present; not simply as phenomena of nature or as political territory to be claimed, but as source of creativity and as expression of the way we interact with the world.

Synopsis

In Aquarela (‘watercolour’), award-winning director Victor Kossakovsky draws on the centrality of water and colour to human life – and imagination. We are taken on a journey across the globe where in every scene, in every careful, devoted frame, water and colour are present; not simply as phenomena of nature or as political territory to be claimed, but as source of creativity and as expression of the way we interact with the world.

As children, we learn to paint first by mixing water and base colour. Drops disperse in a jar of water, changing the medium from pure and colourless to delicately tinted or else murky and muddy. It is at this point we can, with a child’s attention, grasp that both beauty and corruption comes from our simplest of gestures.

What we have changed we have changed irrevocably – and we must live with the consequences, our grief and our joy. Aquarela seeks to make a place for the awe-inspiring complexities of water – water as potent, vital, disruptive substance, and water as active record of our humanity. To this day, we do not fully understand water's movements and structural properties. The substance is a marvel - changed both by the colour it has taken on and by the ways in which we look at it. Technically complex, visually stunning and most of all deeply moving, Aquarela shows how our everyday interactions with water colours our understanding and perception of the world.

"I will be filming water. Filming underwater. Filming through water. With water as my guide, I will tenderly and with reverence, seek to reveal the very essence, of water. Together we will seek to create a piece of unforgettable, transparent cinematic imagery. Once again, I want people to feel happiness at least for those 90 minutes while watching my film. In true AQUARELA style my film “Aquarela” must be a glorious flowing visual symphony."    Victor Kossakovsky

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