Preface to a History
A couple, Vlad and Sophy, navigate their relationship as well as their own struggles with mental health in the context of a highly connected, politically uncertain modern world while on a trip to a remote Canadian island in this avant-garde feature film. PREFACE TO A HISTORY, created with a tiny crew of four people, represents an experiment in using minimalist tools to create an overwhelming aesthetic experience in service of a simple, but specifically contemporary, story about two people attempting to navigate a fraying relationship amid all the anxieties and external pressures of modern adulthood in a technologically-interconnected and politically unstable era.
- Year: 2024
- Country: Canada
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Sad Hill Media, Moving Image Agency
- Keyword: melancholy, improvisation, avant-garde, isolated, experimental, durational cinema
- Director: Willa Ross, Devan Scott
- Cast: Vladimir Fedulov, Sophy Romvari, David Ohnona, Daniel Jeffery, Felix Oltean, Susanna Barlow