Stan Adard’s experimental movie BREATHING THROUGH takes us on a very short trip, only three minutes and a half, in which we can “breathe” life.

By using Virtual Reality in a very experimental and unique way, Adard shows pictures and videos about a family’s life in a vertical split screen.

The images are tiny and it’s hard to catch what they are showing. In fact, what the director wanted to point out, is the wallpaper that surrounds the images, as if they were the main character and the images just simple extras.

The images then feed the VR wallpaper, that looks now like a massive bubble. And the bubble gives birth to the images, once again. 

The metaphor of life as a circle and an infinitive journey is clear.

But what does matter the most during this incredible path?

The answer, as Adard says in his director statement, is the following:

“Logic and perspective matter less than the journey of life itself. Images aren’t supporting structures; the road we have chosen is only relative. But the meaning of our personal narrative, like the viewpoint one chooses to see in the video, is ultimately grounded in the breath”.