Constructing a visual essay around the concept of balance, director Nacho Errando reflects on four distinct elements that represent its influence for the short film The Idea of Balance. Merging playful poetry and visual language, Errando considers the presence of balance in everyday life, between skateboarding, spiders, a chair poised on two legs, and a sculptural mobile – conceived by Barcelona-based designer Jordi Canudas.
Exploring definitions of “the state of a body when opposing forces acting upon it are equal and cancel each other out”, balance and its many forms become a symbol of natural equilibrium, physicality, and mental focus, sustaining us and our surroundings. Shooting against the urban environment of Valencia, and intimate moments lived behind closed doors, Errando reflects on the erratic energy of the city, and the thoughts that pass through our minds – observing the power we have to restore order by finding our own sense of balance… read more at nowness.com
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