Poupées de chair (2022)

Between the dazzling first shot—burning debris falling from a satellite entering the atmosphere—and the final sequence merging underwater images with others generated by a specially created camera, a path is sketched out which, in the manner of a reverse science-fiction journey, leads from space exploration to a cemetery in the middle of the ocean.

The great oak tree of Scandiano, in the Reggio Emilia hills, is the silent witness of a long history, that of a territory shaped by nature and human activity. From the late Renaissance to the present, revolutions and traditions have alternated, leaving an uninterrupted flow of images imprinted in the memory of the centuries-old tree. Shot using a drone in a 15-minute sequence plan, The Great Oak is the result of a courageous technical challenge, but above all a conceptual one: to overturn the anthropocentric point of view of film narration and offer a more articulate perspective on reality, on the invisible links between living beings and on our role in the world.

버지니아 울프의 소설 『올란도』와 토드 브라우닝의 영화 에서 착안한 울리케 오팅거 감독의 시간여행 판타지. 남성과 여성을 오가는 여행자 주인공은 다섯 개의 무대를 관통하며 세계의 역사를 이야기한다. 중세 스페인의 종교 재판, 유랑 극단, 그리스 신화, 기형 인간, 카니발리즘적 이야기들은 퀴어적 관점에서 인간의 신체라는 한계를 극복하려 한다. (2019년 한국시네마테크협의회 - 독일 SF 특별전 - 미래는 어떻게 만들어지는가?)

In the middle of one of his recurrent anxiety attacks, a Lebanese young man living in Brussels finds rest in a self-service laundry. He moves around the place with his microphone, driven by the obsession of understanding the origin of his discomfort.

A couple of fisher-folk are joined by a young new apprentice in the middle of a raging storm.