Still Life asks you to sit with a question instead of answering it: is something that doesn't move alive or dead. The film moves the way its subject does, slow, patient, unbothered by urgency. You leave wondering what you actually watched, and that uncertainty is the whole point. It's built for people who confuse quiet with emptiness, who mistake a lack of noise for a lack of meaning. The kind of film that lands harder on a second watch because you stop waiting for something to happen.

Still Life is an animated film built around a question raised by its own title. In Japanese, a still life is called seibutsuga, meaning a painting of something that does not move, while in Italian it is natura morta, or dead nature. The film asks what a still life really is: a kind of life, or something dead.