Aeterna is a movement-based film that explores the feeling of personal insignificance when confronted with the complexity of human existence. By combining choreography and cinematography, the film plays with distorting the human form, offering a visual representation of our place in the world.
Emily Brown
Principal Dancer
Hannah Goodman
Dancer
Lea Liebich
Dancer
Samuel Foggitt
Dancer
Luke Parsons
Dancer
Zara Zafar
Dancer
Aeterna is a movement-based film that explores the feeling of personal insignificance when confronted with the complexity of human existence. By combining choreography and cinematography, the film plays with distorting the human form, offering a visual representation of our place in the world.
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