Minimal Sway While Starting My Way Up wins Best Film in Beijing Short Film Festival

We are excited to announce that Minimal Sway While Starting My Way Up by Stéphanie Lagarde has won the Best Film Award in Beijing Short Film Festival.

The prize was accompanied by a jury report by researcher and film critic Yun-Hua CHEN:

“Stéphanie Lagarde's prose film speaks from the perspective of architecture, elevators, and artificial intelligence, looking upward toward the smooth mirrored windows of skyscraper facades and downward into the abyss of ten thousand feet, straight to the source of life on earth, or it can also travel horizontally. The metaphysics of up and down, high and low, the surface and the ground, the penthouse and the basement, in fact, reflect class, exploitation, desire, and the arrogance of a man who ignores the pulse of nature and competes with heaven and earth. From the physicality of architecture to the virtuality of animation, from the real to the virtual, and from the object to the human, Minimal Sway While Starting My Way Up weaves profound philosophical thoughts with the very short length, precise images, and independent aesthetics.”