Momentum
Directed, shot, edited, colour graded & produced by Martina Trepczyk
Filmmaker, photographer, and artist Martina Trepczyk shares her journey between worlds, between languages. Her deepest sense of freedom emerges by the sea. She spent her childhood at her grandparents’ home on the Polish coast, where her fascination with nature began early. She drew storyboards of sea creatures and anatomical cross-sections of animals giving birth. Before turning twelve, she experienced her first dive in Croatia with her father. Together, they encountered an octopus. A moment that became unforgettable.
It sparked a recurring dream: to see whales and orcas in the wild. For Martina, being underwater means liberation. It’s about becoming part of something larger, perhaps even sacred. It is an encounter with transcendence. Diving, for her, is both a technical practice and a spiritual calling. Silence holds a central role. Not the absence of sound, but the quiet one discovers within. While the ocean may seem silent, the reef is alive, or at least it should be.
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Short film, 3 Minutes
2025
Client Leica
Written by Michael Messer
Momentum
The film does not give us an image that it then sets in motion.
The film gives us an immediate movement-image.
The film contracts a multitude of moments into one.
The film creates. It becomes not a medium, but a reality.
The camera, then, is the facilitator of reality.
She captures movement and stillness made possible by movement.
The camera does not capture the past for the present.
The camera gives birth to a past.
A past we can imagine like an ocean.
But this ocean of reality?
It does not belong to everyone.
Everyone belongs to it.
My name is Martina Trepczyk.
I create underwater and on land.
I create work that reconnects us to the planet’s movement.
Sensuality. Vulnerability.
Work that makes us feel: we are a part of it.
And if we lose it, we will lose ourselves.
I bought my first Leica 14 years ago. I travelled five continents with her.
I am obsessed, really. I love the timeless aesthetic of analog.
That’s why I started collecting Leica R lenses.
Now, I don’t have to compromise.
The Leica Sl3-S effortlessly combines film and photography.
6K raw Open Gate Recording creates cinema in the palm of my hand.
And I attune to the planet’s movement faster than ever before.
Because what matters in the end, is not the talk about the ocean.
But becoming the ocean. Martina Trepczyk for Leica.
“I create work that reconnects us to the planet’s movement.”
– Martina Trepczyk
