Six minutes to make you feel cosmically small — and weirdly okay about it.
Aeterna is a movement-based film that explores the feeling of personal insignificance when confronted with the complexity of human existence. By combining choreography and cinematography, the film plays with distorting the human form, offering a visual representation of our place in the world.
Cinematography
Bodies stretched, compressed, made alien by lens choice.
Direction
Goodman weaponizes dance as existential language.
Practical Effects
Zero CGI — every distortion is choreography and glass.
Director
Hannah Goodman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title 'Aeterna' evokes eternal time while the runtime insists on brevity — a formal joke about human scale.
Emerges from a wave of UK experimental dance film including works by Crystal Moselle and the late Sophie.
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