At the Threshold of Sea and Spirit
Kevin Osepa
Two films by Kevin Osepa, winner of the Prix de Rome in 2025, bring audiences into a cinematic world shaped by memory, labour and spiritual inheritance on the island of Curaçao. Osepa’s filmmaking lingers within everyday settings – shorelines, conversations, gestures – where the material and the spiritual intersect.
La Última Ascención centers on Rowin, a fisherman whose daily struggle to secure a catch begins to shift after a chance meeting with a mysterious man at his usual fishing ground. What begins as coincidence gradually takes on another resonance. As their relationship deepens, the shoreline becomes a threshold where personal history, quiet revelation and possibility converge.
The programme also includes a film drawn from Lusgarda, a larger installation created for the Prix de Rome. The work reflects on Ocho Dia, the eight-day mourning period following a funeral in Curaçaoan tradition – a ritual now slowly fading from collective life. Through image and sound, Osepa approaches mourning as a cultural technology – a shared system through which communities process loss, transmit memory and maintain relations between the living and the departed.
What else is on Saturday?
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