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Miguel Fonseca : 2012
The Waves

Beautiful seascapes swept before my eyes. Tied up in these images was my youth, my paradise lost. The vast sea, the beach, the people, all waiting, all dying gently, sadly, beautifully. Life and death were being recorded here as a whole: death as a part of life, a cosmic change, a transformation. And the waves, indifferent to everything. The minutiae of two sisters' relationship is placed in balance with the vastness of the ocean, cliffs and late summer sky. A terrain rendered even more starkly beautiful by the sense of frailty and loss at its very core. Miguel Fonseca's stunningly photographed short premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012, and won the Best European Short Film award at Ghent International Film Festival 2012.