Leap of Faith. III. The Unfinished Passage

Join us on Tuesday, July 21 on the e-flux Screening Room rooftop for The Unfinished Passage, the third part of , a four-part summer screening program bringing together artists’ films and cinema features from Brazil, Belgium, Spain, Vietnam, Japan, and the United States.

Modern life was supposed to make the world more rational and easier to explain. Yet many experiences resist rational explanation: an illness without a clear cause, an ethical demand that changes a life, the presence of the dead, an image that outlives what it records. The films in this program engage with experiences that transcend what exists within the concrete, physical world. To take a leap of faith, here, is to act on the chance that this world holds more than it shows.

Screenings take place on Tuesdays from July 7–28, 2026, and begin after sunset. Read more about the series here.

III. The Unfinished Passage
Tuesday, July 21, 2026, after sunset

Death does not bring closure in these films. The dead remain present in landscapes and in everyday life, where the living and the deceased continue to shape one another's existence. To go on living in the presence of the dead requires openness to a world larger than what it appears to be.

Lois Patiño, The Sower of Stars (2022, Spain, 25 minutes)
In The Sower of Stars, Patiño takes zen paintings as an aesthetic starting point for a phantasmagoric journey to the end of the night. The film becomes a transitional space between life and death where the borders separating them blur and a spectral and dreamlike space emerges.

Trương Minh Quý, Viet and Nam (2024, Vietnam 95 minutes)
In the depths of the underground coal mines, where danger awaits and darkness prevails, Nam and Việt, both young miners, cherish fleeting moments spent together, knowing that one of them will soon leave for a new life across the sea. The film gradually turns into a lucid dream, a hallucinatory metaphor about the eternal presence of the dead.
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In case of rain, the event will take place in our indoor Screening Room.

The films and moving-image installations of Lois Patiño (b. 1983) focus on the relationship between people and landscape and on landscape as a contemplative experience. His works have been presented at film festivals such as the Cannes, Berlinale, Locarno, Rotterdam, Toronto, and New York film festivals, as well as art fairs and exhibitions such as ARCO, Paris Photo, Photo London, Unseen, and the Aichi Triennale.

Trương Minh Quý (b. 1990, Buôn Ma Thuột, Vietnam) is a filmmaker working between documentary and fiction. He graduated from Le Fresnoy, National Studio of Contemporary Arts, in 2021. His films draw on landscape, memory, home, and Vietnamese history, and have screened at Cannes, Berlinale, Locarno, IFFR, and the New York Film Festival. His features include The City of Mirrors: A Fictional Biography (2016), The Tree House (2019), and Việt and Nam (2024), selected for Un Certain Regard at Cannes. Hair, Paper, Water… (2025), co-directed with Nicolas Graux, won Locarno’s Golden Leopard in Filmmakers of the Present.