Permanent center of gravity

Many moons ago, fireworks were still joy, neighbors were still neighbors, and no war had yet begun. On February 24 everything broke off. Since then, I walk through the night, searching for my permanent center of gravity - for the light that resists the dark.

  • Liliya Timirzyanova
    Director
  • Liliya Timirzyanova
    Writer
  • Aleksandr Vaniukov
    Sound
  • Periklis Liakakis
    Film score composer
  • Liliya Timirzyanova
    Producer
  • Liliya Timirzyanova
    Editor
  • Jonathan Meiri
    Editor
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Centro di gravità permanente
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short, Student, Other
  • Runtime:
    10 minutes 26 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    August 25, 2025
  • Country of Origin:
    Greece
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    Russian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital , 35 mm
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - University of Crete
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Venice Film Festival, Giornate degli Autori
    Venice
    Italy
    August 30, 2025
    World Premiere
Director Biography - Liliya Timirzyanova

Liliya Timirzyanova is a Tatar filmmaker with a background in classical music and literature. Her first feature film, ANIMA (2021), was screened internationally and received several awards.
In 2022, she left Russia and is now based between Greece and Austria, where she continues her work.
In 2025, she co-founded YOOL Films, a production company based in Vienna.
Her short documentary Centro di Gravità Permanente (2025) premiered at the Venice Film Festival (Giornate degli Autori) as part of Laguna Film Lab. She is currently in post-production on her two short fiction films, Orphic Drift and Psyche and Amor, as well as the short documentary Wine-Dark Sea.

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Director Statement

“Permanent Center of Gravity” was completed entirely in exile, shot in Italy as part of LagunaFilmLab, and had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival (Venice Days).
The film is a nocturnal journey through the Venetian lagoon, a space suspended between water and sky, darkness and light. Guided by a wandering voice, it moves among children, lovers, fishermen, and solitary figures, observing how tenderness, resilience, and meaning persist in ordinary gestures even amidst fear and displacement. Parallel to this, a darkroom becomes a space of creation, where analogue photographs are born from light, affirming that uncertainty and fragility are inseparable from any act of life and art.
I am drawn to cinema as a form of reflection and resistance. I search for moments where the personal intersects with the political, where beauty and human connection persist despite chaos, and where the small, fleeting gestures of everyday life hold weight against the darkness of our times. My work is modest in scale but attentive to the unseen and intimate truths of the world, seeking to illuminate the fragile light that continues to resist.