issue 01
Notes from the editors
New Lines
by sander hölsgens and Hannah Paveck
W A T E R a patient expanse, an unexpected surge. It doesn’t stay long, until it has a reason to stick around or flow some more. This marginally blue substance envelops, animates, drowns, consoles, terrorises and evaporates. Water is as elusive as an unfallen raindrop, as much as it gives form to the saltiest of tears and tidal waves.
Assembling this issue was a watery task: everyone and no one makes films and works towards written pieces on the earthliest of blues-greys-colourless. Understandably so: water is at once a destructive and vitalising force and a metonymy with the richest of symbolic meanings. Correspondingly, then, this collection of works embraces a vast spectrum of watery worlds. The works and articles presented here aspire a floating yet deep understanding of the delicate relationship between water and film…
