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In Meadows Wait, Mist Diffuses, Dzhovani Gospodinov captures the enigmatic energies of Hosbësch. Ruminating on the encroaching influence of civilisation in its woodlands and the ways in which humans disrupt and alter the intimacies between animals, the film queries the ethics of our intrusion into the natural world. Shot over four years with motion activated cameras and interlaced with Gospodinov’s own fragmented recollections of the woods, the film poeticises the protracted rupturing of a landscape. Moving between the visual and affective modalities of the voyeuristic and introspective, the film is at once a portrait of—and elegy to—Hosbësch.

Dzhovani Gospodinov is a Luxembourgish filmmaker whose work experiments with the boundaries between documentary and fiction. Interested in the power of observational filmmaking and its ability to conjure both exteriorised and reflexive modes of storytelling, Gospodinov’s projects have illustrated the poetics of ancient pagan rituals, the erosion of intimacies between humankind and the natural world, and hermetic, monastic orders, amongst other things.