STILL

An invitation to see the world as it is — and still choose innocence.

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A Line To Keep

“There is an innocence that comes before knowing. And another that comes after.”

A Reflection on Chosen Innocence

What if innocence doesn’t disappear when we learn the truth?

We tend to think of innocence as something life slowly takes from us: experience replaces wonder, disappointment replaces trust, knowledge replaces naïveté. But there may be another kind of innocence—one that exists after we know. In this companion piece to STILL, we explore the philosophy and psychology of chosen innocence: seeing the world clearly without allowing what we discover to become our worldview.

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Behind the Film

A few references that shaped STILL.

Botany — Orchid: A Cultural History by Jim Endersby

A flower that has never meant just one thing. Across centuries and cultures, orchids have accumulated contradictory meanings: desire, rarity, seduction, secrecy, beauty. Their extraordinary diversity has made them objects of fascination as much as flowers. In STILL, the orchid becomes something else: a body capable of changing without losing its essence. Transparent at first. Marked by experience. Opaque in the end. The same flower — no longer the same form. Perhaps strength does not always look like armour. Sometimes, it looks like a flower still willing to open.

Psychology — Post-Traumatic Growth by Richard Tedeschi & Lawrence Calhoun

What if healing is not a return to who you were before? Psychologists Richard Tedeschi and Lawrence Calhoun developed the concept of post-traumatic growth: positive psychological change that can sometimes emerge through the struggle with adversity. It is distinct from simply “bouncing back.” Growth can coexist with suffering; it does not erase what happened, nor is it an inevitable outcome of trauma. That distinction became central to STILL. The orchid never becomes transparent again. It does not return. It becomes.

Neuroaesthetics — Art and Psychological Well-Being: Linking the Brain to the Aesthetic Emotion

What if beauty could do more than please us? Neuroaesthetics explores what happens in the brain when we encounter beauty, connecting aesthetic experience with perception, emotion and reward. This shaped the visual language of STILL: darkness, symmetry, slow movement, organic form, an almost impossible white. The orchid is not beautiful merely to decorate the film. Beauty is part of the experience the film is trying to create. Something difficult is placed inside something beautiful — perhaps making it a little easier to stay with.

Japanese Art — Kintsugi

What if repair was never meant to make us look untouched? Kintsugi repairs broken ceramics with lacquer and precious metal, allowing fractures to remain visible rather than disguising them. STILL reverses that image. There is no golden scar on the orchid. The blood disappears. But the flower does not return to transparency. It has acquired opacity. Substance. A boundary. Not untouched. Not restored. Transformed.

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