“A parable on place and time. A game of metamorphoses. A passage after death, a second death. A woman gives birth and dies. At the moment of death, her face disintegrates and assumes the aspects of those who stand by her bed. Her body is torn by the conflicts of those who inhabit it and her voice dissolves into many voices and many roles.”

Constructed from tableau vivants that exist in a void, Topos is an exploration of the treatment and depiction of women in Renaissance-era Western art. Proto-ASMR soundscapes of breath and voice create the soundtrack, with imagery and choreography that approaches a synthesis of theatre and still-life painting.

The film presents an expanded, in-between moment, where memories flow simultaneously, and their consistency has the arbitrariness and exactness of the sequence of a dream. The entire film is a filmed dream. Bodies drift in different rhythms, each has its own individual temporality, while the film records two 24-hour cycles, presenting successively events that may be 20 years or 40 days apart from each other.