Hilal Baydarov’s work has won attention for its stunning imagery, confident framing and lyrical

slowly lowers it, her story of a ghost village in which everyone has rotted away

there was another world,” he says of the time, an insight that soon led to

here for the beauty,” he says of his filming days, allowing no phones or social

my films by editing,” Baydarov says, adding that the rich soundscape of birds, wind, insects

to the Fish,” typically, he ran through hundreds of bird sounds before choosing the ones

cites a lesson from his mentor, the grand Hungarian surrealist, Tarr: “Film like a dream,

believes that cinema is in its early days as an art and filmmakers are

base unit of music is the note and the building block of literature is the

drives much of Baydarov’s work, he says, rather than any interest in finding or