Stay the Same

Running time: 14'

Stay the Same
Production: UK 2013

Recording footage for this experimental documentary took place over the course of a year: every day at the same time in the same place. Stay the Same talks about our relation to time and the need to capture the feeling, the experience, the emotion. Without any words or changing the camera angle, the film goes from darkness to light, shows seasons and emotions. Never-ending change is the only thing that is constant. It broadens the boundaries of the form, creating a part of film poetry, showing beauty and pain present in every day. Director Sam Firth came to one and the same place at the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland every day at the same hour, and for ten minutes filmed her self-portrait. The film is an accumulation of these moments, accompanied by Fraya Thomse's score made especially for the film.


 

Authors:

  • Sam Firth

    Sam Firth is a filmmaker based in Scotland. Her work explores the use of images and video in the construction of personal narrative, and crosses the boundaries between fiction and documentary, science and art. Her first film ID won awards internationally including The Human Condition prize at the Chicago International Film Festival in 2011 and the DepicT Award at Encounters Film Festival 2010. The Worm Inside was selected by Sight & Sound in its eight highlights of the London Short Film Festival. Stay the Same won the International Competition at the VideoEx Experimental Film Festival in Zurich this year.

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