Vladimir Davidia, Anna Selivanova: Manifesto of the Stone upon the Water

Manifesto of the Stone upon the Water

Vladimir Davidia, Anna Selivanova | 2025 | 14m 9s | UA

Radar Vienna INTERNATIONAL Award
Competition 05

A 14-minute wordless cine-manifesto born from darkness, chance, and the eroticized body. Written after the downfall of the Occident, this prophecy uses painting—the freest of arts—to resist the indifferent flow of linear time.

European culture once rested on the stone; it supported what stood above but crushed what lay beneath. Now, as foundations dissolve and freedom drowns, we perform a symbolic act: returning the stone, but setting it upon the water. „Manifesto of the Stone upon the Water“ is both a declaration about the survival of art and the act of painting itself.