Impasse
Director Zsófia Szilágyi
Countries Hungary
Duration 49 min
Synopsis
Documenting snippets of Jelena’s six-month stay in Hungary, HA BÍRSZ / IMPASSE moves away from an arrival full of hopes and plans — first at a slower pace that soon becomes more like a free fall — to a state of despair, where she feels as if someone had pulled the ground out from underneath her feet. All the excitement and countless new opportunities notwithstanding, what started out as a road to self-discovery and self-actualization therefore turns into a gridlock, where nothing is certain, there’s nothing to hold on to, and even time itself feels as if it had been stopped.
Documenting snippets of Jelena’s six-month stay in Hungary, HA BÍRSZ / IMPASSE moves away from an arrival full of hopes and plans — first at a slower pace that soon becomes more like a free fall — to a state of despair, where she feels as if someone had pulled the ground out from underneath her feet. All the excitement and countless new opportunities notwithstanding, what started out as a road to self-discovery and self-actualization therefore turns into a gridlock, where nothing is certain, there’s nothing to hold on to, and even time itself feels as if it had been stopped.