Trillion

Norway, IDFA Envision competition 2025

Director Victor Kossakovsky offers a cinematic and wordless interpretation of the Myth

of Sisyphus* in TRILLION, the second installment of his “empathy trilogy” that began

with GUNDA (2020). Rooted in an unfolding, real-life event in collaboration with the

artist known as K49814, the film transcends documentation.

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Provoking deeply relevant

questions about the meaning and purpose of life in a time when all sentient beings

face existential threat, Kossakovsky weaves balletic action and a deceptively simple

story, gradually situating viewers within a dynamic process of discovery, provoking a

sensual contemplation of our interbeing, and deftly revealing the pathos and joy that

arises when defiantly putting a shoulder to the wheel of life.

*A king in Greek mythology, Sisyphus tried to rescue the living from Death, and was

himself condemned to eternally roll a boulder uphill only to have it roll back down.