After festival rejections, a director revises his intensely personal short film about trauma, suicide, and the Holocaust, and transforms it into a painful, blunt and funny dissection of the film and his life.
Ten years in the making.
Experimental Short Film
Scored by Time
In 19th century Europe, a displaced older woman struggles to maintain her sense of reality within the cruelty of the social order . Close to death we discover she is not only a victim of persecution but has carried an additional life long burden.
Broken Mirror
The screen is splitted in four parts. Within each of them, Sarah notices an unknown presence hiding in her home. Who's the stranger? Is he ill-intended? What's that familiar look?
The Stream XII-II
Human beings act on nature in order to keep their lives.
From their activities, several streams are generated and landscapes are transformed.
I focus on the beauty of transformation created through the relation between human activities and nature, and want to express the beauty as a kind of visual ballet.
Symphonic Distress
The music came first. Asked to provide a visual component, I was struck by its beauty from the very first listen. Although the music and the film are in themselves apolitical, the urgent impulse to express ourselves through art has been exacerbated by the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. The intention, while avoiding any direct reference to war, is to tacitly evoke certain universal emotions born out of its consequences: fear, suffering, outrage, vulnerability, abnegation, hope.