Where Painting and Film Become One Perception
Behind the Moment is a meditative film that fuses painting and cinema into a single, expanded language of perception. Rooted in the work of German painter Jan Siebert, whose humanistic realism captures unseen lives across the Global South, the film invites the viewer into spaces of slowness, contemplation, and deep encounter. Moving beyond documentation, Behind the Moment extends the interior life of Siebert’s paintings into time, sound, and movement — allowing unseen realities to quietly unfold.
From the Afro-Brazilian neighborhoods of Salvador to the favelas of Rio and indigenous life along the Amazon, the film reveals not staged fictions, but lived realities rarely visible in the Western gaze. Against the accelerating simulation of life, Behind the Moment offers a quiet but radical counter-narrative: an invitation to linger, to perceive, and to step behind the surface of the visible world.