Vanishing Points · A Hymn of Spires

Vanishing Points | A Hymn of Spires is a contemplative short doc told through observation, filmed in Amsterdam between 2025 and 2026. Using tightly composed, locked-off frames, it captures the city’s church spires as steady figures in a landscape.

In a city defined by motion, bicycles weaving through traffic, trams humming across bridges, crowds flowing through narrow streets, the vertical lines of the spires stand apart. The film traces their contours not as monuments, but as quiet observers. Rising above the ebb and flow of daily life, they carry the soul of the old city and offer a visual and emotional counterpoint to the flattening pace of modernity.

Shot entirely within the historic center, Vanishing Points draws attention upward. Its images linger on ornate towers half-hidden between rooftops or framed through alleys, revealing how the city’s skyline holds memory in its form. The spires remain rooted as the world shifts around them, steady and attentive.

Set to an original score and layered with stereo field recordings, the film invites viewers to look again, and more slowly, at what endures. Neither nostalgic nor didactic, Vanishing Points is a quiet study in vertical resistance, grounded in the enduring presence of structures shaped across centuries.