Blue Suns
2010 · 5m · Canada
Directed by Chloé Leriche
Genres: essay film, experimental
Tones: contemplative, sensual, tender
A solitary figure walks through the forest as stone, water, and composed sound turn the stroll into a meditation on the mystery of the natural world.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Everyone's going to call this 'meditative,' which is exactly why it's boring—a five-minute essay film that mistakes slowness for depth and lets the NFB pedigree do all the thinking for it.
Leriche situates herself firmly in the structural film lineage, using stone and water as formal materials rather than metaphors; the composed sound design doesn't illustrate the walk so much as interrogate our relationship to observation itself—genuinely rigorous.
The singular move here is the decision to let the *sound* carry the mystery rather than the image; that choice of sonic restraint over visual spectacle is what transforms a simple forest walk into something that actually breathes.