Miglė Križinauskaitė-Bernotienė

This film is a reflective audiovisual collage of images and sounds that have never met and were never supposed to meet.

There is a story circulating among Zen Buddhist monks about two types of monks. First ones are settled and spend all their life in a monastery, they are identified with the blue mountains, while others are like white clouds – constantly traveling from one place to another. In the film, the filmmaker and Won Bo Sunim, a Lithuanian woman who decided to go to South Korea more than 20 years ago and become a Zen monk, embark on a journey in the mountains of South Korea.

This film is a poetic essay, an ode to the sea. Although it does not place a human being at its center, it is precisely the absence of a human that best reveals the essence of humanity. As poet Kahlil Gibran said, ‘There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.

With every moment – one more memory. But memory sometimes goes blind and what is left becomes hazy.

The understanding that energy neither originates from nothing nor disappears into nothing leads us to explore the concepts of reincarnation, rebirth, and transmigration from philosophical and religious perspectives.