Director’s statement

I’m in my 30s now. But a while ago I was still 28, handed a Blackmagic camera by a friend, and filming aimlessly over the Christmas holidays of 2024–25.

It felt like a moment of transition — though maybe all moments are. There was a low-level hum of fear and anticipation as the decade turned, a sense that time was accelerating beyond my ability to hold onto it. This short, messy film is an attempt to capture that exact sensation: when everything rushes past you and you don’t yet know how to slow it down.

The only certainty was the act of recording — saving fragments in photos and videos in the hope that, one day, they might allow me to return to that fleeting feeling. A kind of future nostalgia. As if we’ve been moving in circles all along.