Of the Unknown

2014 | 10min | Tribeca

'While poverty persists, there is not true freedom.' A short visual meditation, OF THE UNKNOWN is set in one of Asia's wealthiest and most densely populated cities where millionaires and the 'working poor' live side by side. The film explores how our notions of freedom and happiness are shaped by the place we occupy, both literally and metaphorically, in our society. What is the importance of freedom when one faces a daily struggle for survival? Is it even possible to have to dreams, or to dream, if one was never given any opportunities in life?

director EVA WEBER | producer SOPHIE VENNER & JAMES MARSH | director of photography CHLOë THOMSON | sound designer DENNIS WHEATLY



FESTIVALS:

WORLD PREMIERE at the 58th San Francisco Int. Film Fest 2015 | 42nd Telluride International Film Fest 2015 | Hot Docs 2015 | NOMINATED for the Grand Jury Prize (Live Action Short) at the AFI Fest 2015 | Doxa 2015 | Docaviv Int. Film Fest 2015 | Dokufest 2015 | 11th Camden Int. Film Fest 2015 | 12th BendFilm 2015