Film
INWARD
6 min 57 sec · Dance / Experimental Film · Iceland · 2026
Logline
Slowly sliding into a volcanic crater, a young woman begins to fight the beliefs that hold her down. Lifting her head, she sees a figure in white at the rim — and climbs toward it, not knowing who, or what, awaits her.
Synopsis
On the slope of a volcanic crater, a young woman is slowly slipping toward the bottom, losing the strength and the will to go on.
But something in her refuses. Her first attempt to rise fails. So does the next. She keeps fighting the beliefs that hold her back — and then a figure in white appears at the rim, as if it has been waiting for her all along.
Step by step, she reaches the top. There, the figure in white guides her to the water, where their movements begin to mirror each other.
A wordless dance film about the light we cannot see until we begin to rise.
Details
- Director
- Viacheslav Martynovskyi
- Format
- Short Film
- Genre
- Dance / Experimental Film
- Country
- Iceland
- Runtime
- 6 min 57 sec
- Language
- No dialogue
- Completion
- 2026
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39:1
- Sound
- Stereo
- Camera
- Sony A7S III
- Status
- Completed
- Production
- SN Video Production
Director’s Statement
“Change begins within us. Sometimes all it takes is the first movement upward.”
Viacheslav Martynovskyi
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Credits
- Directed by
- Viacheslav Martynovskyi
- Music composed by
- Sveinn Rúnar Sigurðsson
- Piano performed by
- Sveinn Rúnar Sigurðsson
- Choreography by
- Alona Perepelytsia, Aleksandra Perepelytsia
- Performed by
- Alona Perepelytsia, Aleksandra Perepelytsia
- Cinematography by
- Viacheslav Martynovskyi, Nataliia Osoblyvets
- Drone pilot
- Viacheslav Martynovskyi
- Edited by
- Viacheslav Martynovskyi, Nataliia Osoblyvets
- Color grading by
- Nataliia Osoblyvets
- Director of photography
- Nataliia Osoblyvets
- Costumes by
- Alona Perepelytsia, Aleksandra Perepelytsia
- Production assistant
- Yelyzaveta Holovanova
- Location & logistics
- Sveinn Rúnar Sigurðsson, Viacheslav Martynovskyi, Nataliia Osoblyvets, Alona Perepelytsia, Aleksandra Perepelytsia
- Production company
- SN Video Production
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