Swagger 2016

Swagger is a documentary with a style yet to be put into a box; which reflects the nature and complex mosaic of expression of the eleven protagonists.

Darbareye Elly – About Elly 2009

The movie has the audacity of a freshly remembered dream, where the main event emerges suddenly, as if triggered by a strong sense of smell. The camera is directed to show the story with the insistence and perseverance of a wild life documentary, in portraying the series of events as they come and when they come. Which unveil in such a way to create a feeling of uneasiness, similar to the tension of performing simple actions like running or throwing punches while dreaming. The feeling is in part projected from the protagonists internal group dynamics or their acquired traditional impositions …

Ava 2017

  The widespread characteristic of the movie belongs to that period of everyone’s life before we are shaped to integrate within societies’ rules and its culture of behaviour. The movie transcends the pure feeling of adventure that very so often is reminiscent by everyone who’s routine took over their life. This perpetual sense of adventure, like a pandemic of pure joy, spreads though the movie and swallows all emotions.  Until a different reality is experienced while unconscious and dreaming. Then you find yourself in a scenario taken from a traditional manual of repressed unconscious fears. Which manifest themselves in surreal …

Three colours WHITE 1994

The recurrent themes of the trilogy is one strong idea that can be traced back to causal determinism philosophies and ‘causa sui’ or self caused determined fates. Causal determinism can be intended as Predeterminism, the idea that all events are determined in advance.[9][10] (…) implying that there is an unbroken chain of prior occurrences stretching back to the origin of the universe. Whereas ‘causa sui’ happens within itself. Blanc, is filmed in a way to set a down to earth mood of a seemingly common young couple who is going throw extraordinary situations to bless their love with sentiments of …

MY FIRST HIGHWAY 2016

When Freud was writing about the psychology of children, his work was highly criticised. There is one thing to be considered, he was talking from a specific age prospective, a child’s prospective, and so does My First Highway. Seemingly there is one dominating perspective which generates an archetype pattern of behaviour. It alternates the absence of strong emotions to a euphoric wilderness again and again and again. Like wild horses running on stormy waves until they realise… they cannot float nor fly and the waves transform their heartbeat into a flat line. The overall feeling of uneasiness and exaggerated euphoria is …