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I Accidentally Stepped on a Flower

Eneos Çarka, Stivi Imami
Albania
17’ 41"

Tirana’s second biggest stadium is a socialist relic past its prime that has failed to keep up with the surrounding world. It rests in a state of limbo, silent and timeless. Built with over a million point clouds after scanning the entire stadium, this posthumanist film-poem is the result of a first contact with the perennial wildflowers that had sprouted in the abandoned fields of the stadium.

An odyssey through thousands and millions of colourful spheres forming metamorphic landscapes: a stadium, a flower, vegetation, serenity. Spheres that always find themselves in the ephemeral process of becoming whole, yet never in a hurry to get there, always continuing on their trajectory. Completely immersive and possessing a rare quality in which every component seems to float unconstrained by filmic material, Eneos Çarka and Stivi Imami’s I Accidentally Stepped on a Flower is striking in its spontaneity and its ability to convey both complexity and grace in an infinite, ever familiar setting. (Emil Vasilache)

Screening date and location

September 26th, 8:30 PM, Cinemateca Eforie

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Awards & Festivals

Eneos Çarka, Stivi Imami

Eneos Çarka is a filmmaker, media artist, and researcher. His films have screened at numerous festivals, galleries, and cultural events such as IDFA, FIPADOC where he received Tënk Award, HotDocs, Musée du Louvre, Venice Architecture Biennale and more. He received the FIPRESCI Award in 2023 for The Silence of The Banana Trees and served as a Jury Member in the IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary in 2022.

Stivi Imami is a multidisciplinary designer whose work often combines different media such as graphic design, animation or generative and sound reactive art. He currently works as a full-time digital designer while also developing his creative projects on the side. He has received awards in Belgium and his work has been screened in places such as the Musée du Louvre and the Albanian Pavilion’s Finissage event at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale.

  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • Co-directors: Eneos Çarka, Stivi Imami
  • Drone operator: Marsel Dajçi
  • Researcher: Erisa Mesini
  • Co-producers: Eneos Çarka, Stivi Imami

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I Accidentally Stepped on a Flower

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Tirana's second biggest stadium is a socialist relic past its prime that has failed to keep up with the surrounding world. It rests in a state of limbo, silent and timeless. Built with over a million point clouds after scanning the entire stadium, this posthumanist film-poem is the result of a first contact with the perennial wildflowers that had sprouted in the abandoned fields of the stadium.
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