MONUMENTAL
FILM / 04
RELEASED

01 / SYNOPSIS
Between touch and pixel.
When stone learns to dance.
In the space between touch and pixel, something ancient awakens. A meditation on permanence in an impermanent age, MONUMENTAL captures the moment when stone learns to dance. Physical sculptures—crafted by hand from clay, marble, and metal—surrender to the digital realm as scanning technology dissects their form, only to resurrect them in impossible configurations. Neither fully of the past nor completely of the future, these transmuted monuments move with hypnotic grace through digital landscapes that defy physics and expectation. Electronic soundscapes pulse beneath tactile textures, tracing the evolution from the weight of material to the weightlessness of code. MONUMENTAL isn’t just a film—it’s a ritual of transformation, documenting the sacred moment when the handmade becomes immortal through its own destruction and rebirth. A visual tone poem that asks: When everything physical crumbles, what monuments will we leave behind?
02 / CREDITS
- Directed by
- Jessica Neubauer
- Performer
- Valentin Tszin
- 3D Scan
- Warja Rybakova
- Animation Supervisor
- Melis Caner
- Produced by
- Cem Tekin, Exosolar Films
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