Sentires
2021 · 18m · Argentina
Directed by Lorena Bernasconi
Genres: essay film, experimental, musical
Tones: contemplative, sensual, tender
Eleven poems, eleven artists and different disciplines make up this short film, a tribute to the emotions that intuitively seek their channel of expression through the word, together with music and the visual, reflecting a sensitive, feminine world.
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Eleven poems filtered through eleven artists across disciplines feels like the kind of reverential multimedia thing that makes me want to scream, except Bernasconi's actually subverting the essay-film form by refusing to let any single medium dominate—it's almost aggressively anti-climactic in the best way.
This sits confidently in the lineage of feminist essay cinema and visual poetry—Bernasconi understands the formal grammar of how image, text, and sound can be orchestrated as a unified sensory argument, and the restraint in her editing choices makes the tenderness actually land rather than feel obligatory.
The decision to let each artist respond to a poem rather than illustrate it creates a kind of formal constraint that forces genuine invention—it's the kind of structural choice that makes a small, intimate project feel essential instead of decorative.