од почеток?

Released alongside the short film of the same name, "од почеток?" (From the Beginning?) is the new release by fydhws, the solo project of Macedonian audiovisual artist Kristijan Petreski, currently based in Prague. A note from the artist: Part documentary, part ambient drift, the release grew out of everyday movement through the city: abandoned buildings near former workplaces, forests hidden between pipes and concrete, demolition sites a few minutes away from home, and repeated walks through Stromovka Park. What began as fragments of video, captured almost accidentally across different periods of time and spaces, slowly evolved into a connected audiovisual work. The music arrived later, often through late night recording sessions directly inspired by specific scenes and moments from the footage. A final shot filmed in the park sparked the first ideas; the harsher passages emerged afterwards through older recordings rediscovered while searching for sounds that could accompany the overwhelming presence of demolition machinery devouring buildings. These contrasts gradually shaped the central emotional thread of the work: the destruction of what has become rotten, making space for something new to emerge. Machinery and nature, collapse and renewal, darkness and light coexist throughout the piece without settling into a fixed narrative. Though edited into an abstract cinematic flow, the material remains deeply documentary in nature, built from chance encounters, observed spaces and fleeting moments tied to a specific time and place.