Elusiveness of Today

Dominika Kováčová / Belgium, Slovakia / 2026 / World Premiere / 5 min.

synopsis

Everyday life multiplies and blurs in layers of images that, in a frantic montage, forget what came before them. An excess of sensations floods the cramped apartment inhabited by Marilli, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Hand-processed 16mm film, accompanied by a delicate soundscape of everyday fragments, lets the past flicker through in places where the present moment loses its contours.

“Thanks to my photography background, I can […] challenge the limits of a moving image and re-evaluate cinematic conventions.” — Dominika Kováčová

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biography

Dominika Kováčová graduated from the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and completed her master’s studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon. Her award-winning films have screened at festivals including FEST and Porto/Post/Doc. Based in Brussels and Lisbon, she has co-founded artist-run analogue film laboratories, including Laboratório da Cave and StroboStrop, which focus on working with analogue film. She is currently developing her debut feature project, Iridescence, within the Sound Image Culture programme.