

Six minutes of sunlight and memory—no plot, all feels.
Sunlight particles reflect in a shallow pool which functions as a natural irrigation system. An old camera, possibly from 2003, captures them.
Cinematography
Sunlight dancing on water—simple, hypnotic, gorgeous.
Direction
Bram Ruiter finds poetry in irrigation systems.

Director
Bram Ruiter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title deliberately evokes multiple meanings—economic depression, geological depression, and emotional state—suggesting systemic collapse on every scale.
Shot on early 2000s technology, the film interrogates digital decay: how even our recording devices become artifacts of lost eras.