Isolation is a poetic reflection on isolation, exclusion, and the mediation of reality. Composed entirely of found and archival footage, the film unfolds in three parts: it opens with images of astronaut Ed White’s 1965 spacewalk — presenting isolation as exploration and transcendence. It then moves to television news clips promoting border wall construction, where isolation is recast as a tool of exclusion, denying people with refugee and migrant backgrounds access to space and security. The film concludes with a static shot of two people sitting in an empty white room, watching television — a quiet depiction of media-saturated existence, magnified during pandemic lockdowns. 

Sound plays a key role in shaping the film’s layered meaning. Fragmented radio transmissions, bureaucratic language, and distant voices drift over the visuals, creating a disembodied and often dehumanizing atmosphere. Sound and image together destabilize the viewer, evoking how real lives are mediated, abstracted, and often erased through both state control and media saturation. The minimal yet evocative editing — slow fades, long takes, and digital textures — further dissolves boundaries between past and present, screen and reality. 

Through this progression, the film redefines space itself: from outer space, to national space, to mental and digital space — asking who is allowed to enter, who is locked out, and who is left watching from behind the screen. (Source: Sasha Ihnatovich)