“Boundless” is an elegiac tribute to life’s fleeting beauty. Inspired by the brief period where a dancer is at the pinnacle of their career, and the inevitability of that fading away. This is mirrored in the life cycle of a star, which burns brightly for a moment before fading into darkness.

Royal Ballet dancer Stanislaw Wegrzyn choreographed his performance to an original score written by Natalia Tsupryk, a Ukrainian composer, who based the piece on old Ukrainian folk music. Victoria Valcheva’s voiceover is also pitch perfect – hopefully it becomes part of the fabric of the film, and sort of gets under your skin. Visually, writer / director William Pope and cinematographer Simon Van Parijs drew inspiration from the photos of W. Eugene Smith, especially his Minamata series, as well as Kaneto Shindo’s film Onibaba.