Albura

2025 · Production and editing · 4:3 · 3:56

Albura is an experimental short film made through the cyanotype process, a nineteenth-century photographic technique that uses iron salts sensitive to sunlight to create images of a deep Prussian blue. Through its protagonist, we explore how childhood and femininity are constantly exposed to an environment that often cannot, or will not, protect them. The girl — a fragile but luminous figure — stands for all those who are no longer here. Albura is both a film and a physical object. Every frame was printed by hand on sensitised paper and exposed to the sun, building a narrative out of patience and light. The technique imposes its own rules — stains, edges, shifts in tone — that enrich the story with a handmade character and a sense of the ephemeral. It is cinema developed by the sun: an image printed not only on paper but on the viewer's intimate experience, one that makes us consider our collective responsibility, as a society, to protect the most vulnerable.