Naomi Pacifique
Writer / Director
Swiss – Dutch
Naomi Pacifique is a Swiss-Dutch artist. She completed her studies in the UK, where she graduated from Oxford University with an Mst in Creative Writing and from London Film School with an MA in Filmmaking. Across the arts, her work interests itself in intimacy and ecology, thinking particularly of the spaces found there to discover and reinvent both oneself and the environment one is surrounded by. Her graduation film from London Film School, after a room, was awarded the Pardino d’Argento Swiss Life at Locarno Film Festival 74. Her second short film, looking she said I forget, developed as part of Berlinale Short Form Station, also premiered in competition at Locarno Film Festival and was nominated for an EFA award. She is currently developing her first two feature films, after the night, the night and rocks like skin like thoughts.
Project
rocks like skin like thoughts
Luz and Santiago head to the rocks and the sea for the day, to discuss the relationships they have had with other partners recently. They have been together for 4 years and Luz is visiting Santiago for the first time in 3 months. They try to reconnect with one another, after having caused each other pain. Luz also wants to reconnect to these rocks specifically: she spent time alone with them last year and had psychedelic dreams after falling asleep on them. She believes she dreamt with them. As the lovers sift through their experiences, watching the tide go in and out over the course of the day, they end up asking their questions about love to the waves and stones too. What can it mean to love each other, and to come back to one another? The water laps at the shore. The sea and rocks have been here for so long after all, rising and crashing, coming back to one each other for millions of millions years – shouldn’t they know something about it all too?
