SHE WHO PASSES THROUGH TIME

Experimental,

Croatia

2026

Runtime, min

She Who Passes Through Time meanders and wanders through spaces, motions, characters, objects, voices and times drifting in an out of form. The film takes as its starting point the Strugatsky brothers’ novel Roadside Picnic on which Tarkovksys Stalker is based, and losely follows the shooting locations of Stalker. The film is organised around the minor character of Monkey - a hairy and mutated little girl, the beloved daughter of the Stalker, working through notions of haunting and the politics of the minor, gender-inflected subject — the one who is absent, the one who mutates, transmigrates.

Director:

Nicole Hewitt

Selections and Awards:

REVIEWS:

Very deliberate, slow camera movements.

Live Screenings Attendee

The cinematography perfectly honors Tarkovsky. The visual representation of Monkey is deeply unsettling and poetic.

Lars Johansson

Too dark and visually monotonous.

Live Screenings Attendee

The connection to Tarkovsky.

Live Screenings Attendee

A deeply meditative and haunting piece. The focus on the mutated girl Monkey is brilliant.

Ana Luis

Good use of natural light.

Kusuma Dewi

I appreciate the effort, but 64 minutes of 'wandering' is just too much for an experimental short.

Hugo Gessaga

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