Artavazd Pelechian’s meditation on the beginning of life has no words, but shows only the face of a young woman in childbirth, set to music and the rhythm of a heartbeat.

A reclusive community in the Armenian Highlands demonstrates the pure art of survival over the course of the four seasons. A stunningly beautiful, bittersweet symphony of human existence.

Artavazd Pelechian delivers an urgent work rooted in his own unique film idiom, using found footage sequences of volcanic eruptions, floods, and windstorms to shake us from the illusion that humanity can control nature.