The One Minutes Series: 'Comfort and Vision'

The One Minutes Series: 'Comfort and Vision'
Title The One Minutes Series: 'Comfort and Vision'
Director Salim Bayri
Duration 00:21:28
Festival year 2021
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In one-minute videos, 21 artists and filmmakers collectively explore how the feeling of comfort affects what you see. One feels comfortable at home when everything in it becomes invisible. When nothing feels out of place or strange. Things are where you leave them, water will come out of the tap transparent and you can walk to your bed with your eyes closed. Comfort is where the least unpredictable things happen. Does that make our senses lazy?
2020, the year when humanity spent maybe the most time at home, made us mold differently to our idea of comfort: inseparable couples now can’t even look at each other and the ugly painting your mom gave you now feels sweeter than ever. This upset notion of comfort changes the perception of what’s strange, familiar, irritating or soothing. How does this new definitions of comfort affect what we see?
‘Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease’ –  Naguib Mahfouz