Private Project

We exist through our eyes

It's as if the world and the pain are reflected in the pool's water, but I still swim in it to stir up my memories.

  • Andor Orbán
    Director
    The Flow of Things
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    A szemünkön át vagyunk mi
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    20 minutes 19 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 28, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    0 HUF
  • Country of Origin:
    Hungary
  • Language:
    Hungarian
  • Aspect Ratio:
    5:3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Budapest Metropolitan University
Director Biography - Andor Orbán

Andor Orbán is a filmmaker from Transylvania, based in Budapest, whose work drifts between abstraction and intimacy. Rooted in photography and shaped by landscapes, fleeting human gestures, and moments that resist explanation, his films often invite the viewer to drift, to forget time, and to enter a space where form becomes sensation.
Favouring natural light, still frames, and long takes, he creates meditative environments that oscillate between closeness and distance, sometimes collapsing the two into a single, disorienting point of view. His images aim less to tell a story than to shift a state of mind.
In works like The Flow of Things, a portrait of a musician in a state of flow, the camera breathes with the rhythm of the music, at times obscuring the visible to reveal something internal. He continues to explore how sound, image, and duration can alter perception, and how cinema can function not as a narrative, but as an experience.

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Director Statement

For me, the essence was that by the end of the film, we perceive the woman swimming in the pool at the beginning in a completely different light. It invites contemplation—are we witnessing detachment, or something more complex? The film unfolds as a meditative journey, where it's not only acceptable but encouraged to drift, to wander, even to fall asleep. What matters is that we allow ourselves to be carried by diffuse thoughts, letting the experience wash over us rather than trying to grasp it.