Trillion
Norway, United States | 2025 | 80 min
Language: no dialogue
Subtitles: no subtitles
For all ages
Director(s): Victor Kossakovsky
Script: (unknown)
Cast: (unknown)
Production: Sant & Usant, Louverture Films
Distribution: Pascale Ramonda
Documentary | Experimental
Masters
Screenings:
Rugged cliffs, a churning sea. A lone wanderer traverses through the harsh landscape, up one cliff, down another. She is on a never-ending journey, seemingly as determined as the waves crashing around her. With her she carries a sack that contains the key to understanding her mission.
Filmed on the Norwegian peninsula, Trillion is a hypnotic journey disconnected from time and place. The understated camerawork uses careful compositions that challenge traditional documentary storytelling. The circular shapes of the cliffs and the vast open sea echo the microscopic outlines of fish scales spreading across the rock. Trillion also examines scales on another level: from the perspective of human activity and nature. The endless toil of the protagonist, who draws on the myth of Sisyphus, might appear overshadowed by her surroundings, but the impact of her actions might still make a difference.
Director Victor Kossakovsky has directed several critically acclaimed documentary films. Trillion is the second installment in Kossakovsky's so-called empathy trilogy, the first part of which, GUNDA (2020), premiered at the Berlinale Film Festival. Like Trillion, Gunda also explores the complex relationships between humans and nature with Joaquin Phoenix as executive producer.
Matleena Hyttinen
Filmed on the Norwegian peninsula, Trillion is a hypnotic journey disconnected from time and place. The understated camerawork uses careful compositions that challenge traditional documentary storytelling. The circular shapes of the cliffs and the vast open sea echo the microscopic outlines of fish scales spreading across the rock. Trillion also examines scales on another level: from the perspective of human activity and nature. The endless toil of the protagonist, who draws on the myth of Sisyphus, might appear overshadowed by her surroundings, but the impact of her actions might still make a difference.
Director Victor Kossakovsky has directed several critically acclaimed documentary films. Trillion is the second installment in Kossakovsky's so-called empathy trilogy, the first part of which, GUNDA (2020), premiered at the Berlinale Film Festival. Like Trillion, Gunda also explores the complex relationships between humans and nature with Joaquin Phoenix as executive producer.
Matleena Hyttinen