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What does awe feel like to you? A filmmaker explores the question.

Édith Jorisch · Documentary / Experimental · 9 min · 6.5K views

Directed by Edith Jorisch · Starring Volodia Schneider · 2019

People from around the world describe in their native languages what awe means to them, woven into a visual and sonic tapestry of definitions.

A meditative, multilingual collage that tries to capture a feeling words struggle to hold.

Filmmaker Édith Jorisch invited individuals from around the world to explain in their native languages what awe means to them. Through this guided journey, the director created a visual and sonic repository of definition

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