Catalogue des films de « Olivier Smolders »

A filmmaker mourns the fading faces of his loved ones and evokes the ritual of masks as a way of connecting to the afterlife.

English summary : A teacher films his students in a high school in Brussels. They talk about where they come from, about school, love, diversity, religion, and about their struggles as well as their hopes. Il existe une version de 52 minutes

Collector of cursed musicians, unreasonable murderers, fairground freaks, paranoid revolutionaries, flatulists and suicidal hermits, a psychiatric patient presents a gallery of the historic figures he is haunted by.

7th of February 1944. The day of the opening of an important exhibition of his work, the photographer Oskar Benedek disappears without trace. Over 60 years later an investigations reveal the secrets of this strange story. "A Share of the Shadow"...

À la fin du XVIIIe siècle, des artistes florentins ont reproduit dans la cire des corps mis à nu par les scalpels de la chirurgie. Dans un geste symétrique, cette petite anatomie découpe les images elles-mêmes, pratiquant des incisions, des...

Secluded in his bedroom, a filmmaker reflects upon his travels, both real or imaginary. Based on images collected throughout the years, the film is a poetic exploration of the difficulty of finding our place in this world.

While shooting a family movie in Venice a film-maker wonders how family images play a part in love and death stories. "What can be more heart-rending than the emotion that envelopes you when watching shaky images, bearing the trace of who have...

DOCU-FICTION Portrait d'un peintre imaginaire à partir de la vie et de l'œuvre d'Antoine Wiertz (1806-1865).

This portrait of autistic children in a psychiatric institution confronts us with their intimity, their jerky gestures, the swaying of their bodies and eyes.

A poetic evocation of slaughter houses, an ear to the whispers of walls. Animals waiting, their disappearance, traces of their passage.