Directors Ana Maria Staicu and Paris Tume approached FISSION as an exploration of movement and embodiment. The title itself is generative: nuclear fission as physical metaphor, but also fission as separation, breaking apart, the dance body fragmenting itself in space.
Performer Deborah Sophia Leist becomes the primary visual material — her body in motion, the sculptural possibilities of dance, the way movement creates space and time. Rather than traditional narrative, the film offers a visual investigation: what can the body express that language cannot?
