Stella Polare

An essay film occupying the ground between narrative documentary and experimental filmmaking It is a work of fragmented histories of the catastrophes of empire war terror and resistance of our times Its unseen narrator encounters the inhabitants of an undisclosed port city in old Europe as they stroll along a jetty in the melancholy fading light of evening These meetings are with terrorists philosophers writers photographers shopkeepers whose subjective accounts and conjecture create a rupture within twentieth century history and beyond