Country:Belgium

Director:Olivier Smolders

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Summary:

African born Olivier Smolders, well known for his surreal short films has finally completed his first feature. This is a kind of nocturnal nightmare about doubles and about motherhood, the latter approached not from its painful, religious side but from a pagan angle, proclaiming fertility and the regeneration of the species. It follows no chronological order, but there is a guiding thread. As in our own subjectivity, associations of ideas are but grist to the mill. The challenge lies in interpreting the meanderings of the unconscious Oscar, the entomologist whose nocturnal footsteps we follow. Are we in dreams reflecting reality or vice-versa? But isn’t that precisely the role of the cinema, to embalm reality, and to retain fragments thereof?

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