Lily Baldwin, an artist, filmmaker, and dancer – whose exploration of mind and body was previously highlighted on Directors Notes in Nat Gee’s filmic representation of an anxiety attack Waves – now hits our pages as a director with Ecstasie, her stand-out hybrid documentary that functions as both a study and a transformative ritual. Ecstasie emerges from a profound inquiry and reflection upon the paradox of capturing the uncapturable; how does one film a state of being that, by definition, exists beyond the reach of external observation? Everything came together after a proposal from female-led creative content studio Lief, and a well-timed introduction to the film’s magnetic subject Liz Rosenfeld. The Berlin-based visual and performance artist soon revealed themselves as the ideal collaborator, not only for their articulate understanding of ecstasy as a lived creative practice, but for their ability to maintain authentic self-sovereignty while remaining open to directorial guidance.
- 5/29/2025
- by Sarah Smith
- Directors Notes
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