During the first pandemic lockdown last March, Egyptian-American filmmaker Sam Abbas (Alia’s Birth, Marie, The Wedding) invited leading cinematographers to create work for an anthology of short documentaries. Using footage shot exclusively on their cell phones, the resulting collaboration, Erēmīta, is both visual invention and poetic composition. The project incorporates writings by Friedrich Nietzsche, and depicts expressions of nature or intimate moments at home. Erēmīta is a boldly innovative, boundary-pushing anthology piece which uses a voice from the past to capture our present reality.