Shot with direct sound, Villofolie presents six people giving a monologue in a destroyed and dehumanized city: Brussels. The film dissects itself to reflect on mental illness and the inability to communicate. The group of people portrayed share feelings of abnormality, anxiety and loneliness.
In a burlesque mode, the director tries to deflate the world (realized here by a globe), to level it, to put its three dimensions in two. To do this, he fights against the material and the ball, embraces it, lies down on it, twists and tramples it. Illusory victory or vain efforts?
The filmmaker does an inventory of the objects he has received from his friends or relatives. Through that variety of things that binds him and his beloved ones together, he tries to take interest in the notion of identity in an indirect, metonymic and multiple way: the part represents the whole,...
Set in the historic site of Brussels' béguinage, this film provides a detailed portrait of the neighborhood's residents. Comprised of about 30 interconnected chapters, it unfolds over the course of a single day, from dawn to dusk, with each segment building on the last, like a web of stories.
The episode of Gérard Courant's Carnets filmés, Crime contre le cinéma (December 25, 2006 to December 2, 2006) is divided into four parts: Colas Ricard at Centre Pompidou, Joseph Morder at La Rochelle, the Filmer à tout prix Festival in Brussels, and Michel Nedjar and Jakobois at Centre...
