III. The Unfinished Passage
Admission:
General $10
Student $7
July 21, 2026, 8:30pm
Brooklyn NY 11205
USA
Join us on Tuesday, July 21 on the e-flux Screening Room rooftop for The Unfinished Passage, the third part of Leap of Faith, a four-part outdoor summer screening program bringing together artists’ films and cinema features from Brazil, Belgium, Spain, Vietnam, Japan, and the United States.
Modern life was supposed to make the world more rational and easier to explain. Yet many experiences resist rational explanation: an illness without a clear cause, an ethical demand that changes a life, the presence of the dead, an image that outlives what it records. The films in this program engage with experiences that transcend what exists within the concrete, physical world. To take a leap of faith, here, is to act on the chance that this world holds more than it shows.
Screenings take place on Tuesdays from July 7–28, 2026, and begin after sunset on our rooftop. Read more about the series here.
III. The Unfinished Passage
Tuesday, July 21, 2026, 8:30pm
Death does not bring closure in these films. The dead remain present in landscapes and in everyday life, where the living and the deceased continue to shape one another's existence. To go on living in the presence of the dead requires openness to a world larger than what it appears to be.
Lois Patiño, The Sower of Stars (2022, Spain, 25 minutes)
In The Sower of Stars, Patiño takes zen paintings as an aesthetic starting point for a phantasmagoric journey to the end of the night. The film becomes a transitional space between life and death where the borders separating them blur and a spectral and dreamlike space emerges.
Trương Minh Quý, Viet and Nam (2024, Vietnam, 95 minutes)
In the depths of the underground coal mines, where danger awaits and darkness prevails, Nam and Việt, both young miners, cherish fleeting moments spent together, knowing that one of them will soon leave for a new life across the sea. The film gradually turns into a lucid dream, a hallucinatory metaphor about the eternal presence of the dead.
For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.
In case of rain, the event will take place in our indoor Screening Room.
