DocNomads film wins awards in DocLisboa and Ji.hlava IDFF
Sounds of Weariness, by Taymour Boulos, won the DoclIsboa’21 Award for Best First Film, and the Silver Eye Award for the Best Short Documentary to which was one of the 10 films nominated at the Industry Programme of the 25th Ji.hlava Int. Documentary Film Festival.
Silver Eye Award’s Jury statement: “An intimate and personal reflection is told in a subtle way, adding to the contemporary discussion about migration and mental health issues. The winning film's aesthetic of using a floating camera helps to create an overall outstanding audiovisual piece.”
DocLisboa’s Jury statement: “The award distinguishes a film that is experimental in nature and reflects a risky and original creative attitude handling images and sounds. At the same time, such experimental work does not exclude, but rather intensifies a human vibration that carries very specific emotions, which are capable of engaging the viewer.”
By Taymour Boulos (Lebanon) • 13' • 2021
Synopsis
In the middle of one of his recurrent anxiety attacks, a Lebanese young man living in Brussels finds rest in a self-service laundry. He moves around the place with his microphone, driven by the obsession of understanding the origin of his discomfort.
In the middle of one of his recurrent anxiety attacks, a Lebanese young man living in Brussels finds rest in a laundromat.
From the embodied eye of a spinning washing machine, we see him traveling around the place along with his microphone, driven by the obsession of understanding the origin of his discomfort.
A symphony of washing machine reverberations and human voices celebrating encounters of people in everyday places.
In Ji.hlava catalogue
Trailer here.