Odyssey
2018, film, 70 min
An outstanding, innovative, ambitious and formally rigorous essay film, which treats a very contemporary topic of our society in a unique and playful manner. [...] The film provides a complex, multi-layered rendering of the parallel and intertwined histories of nationalist, colonialist and thus racist structures in society.
— Jury Doc Alliance Award 2019
“Complex and rewarding (...) pointing to cinema’s potential to render strange the act of seeing
and to the fragility of truth as a highly mediated, constantly renegotiated construct.”
— Ela Bittencourt / Film Comment
"It is through a poetic way that what is found behind these images
can find a place into the visible from which it has been excluded."
— Debordements Magazine
"The winner of the section is Odyssey for the amazing re-orchestration of the archival sources,
the original cinematic dispositif for narration, the cleverness of a critical/political analysis
of the images, shifting from the past to the present and future."
— Paolo Simoni / Head of Jury Istanbul Experimental Film Festival
2018, film, 70 min
An outstanding, innovative, ambitious and formally rigorous essay film, which treats a very contemporary topic of our society in a unique and playful manner. [...] The film provides a complex, multi-layered rendering of the parallel and intertwined histories of nationalist, colonialist and thus racist structures in society.
— Jury Doc Alliance Award 2019
“Complex and rewarding (...) pointing to cinema’s potential to render strange the act of seeing
and to the fragility of truth as a highly mediated, constantly renegotiated construct.”
— Ela Bittencourt / Film Comment
"It is through a poetic way that what is found behind these images
can find a place into the visible from which it has been excluded."
— Debordements Magazine
"The winner of the section is Odyssey for the amazing re-orchestration of the archival sources,
the original cinematic dispositif for narration, the cleverness of a critical/political analysis
of the images, shifting from the past to the present and future."
— Paolo Simoni / Head of Jury Istanbul Experimental Film Festival
FESTIVALS & VENUES
Doclisboa Festival Int. de Cinema (International Competition, WINNER Doc Alliance Award Best Film) Lisbon, Portugal
Transcinema Festival Internacional de Cine (International Competition) Lima, Peru
Cinemigrante Festival Internacional de Cine, Buenos Aires, Argentina
FIDMarseille International Film Festival, Marseille, France
Doclisboa Festival International de Cinema, Doc Alliance Screenings Lisbon, Portugal
Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, Czech Republic
Istanbul Experimental Film Festival (International Competition, WINNER Best Feature) Istanbul, Turkey
Pravo Ljudski Film Festival (International Competition) Sarajevo, Bosnia
ICA: Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
New Horizons Film Festival, Visual Front, Wrocław, Poland
Kinu #3, Azkuna Zentroa, Society and Contemporary Culture Centre, Bilbao, Spain
BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Aesthetics of the Political, Brussels, Belgium
Gudskul 100 Hari Documenta 15, Jakarta, Indonesia
Light Cone / Rencontres du Cinéma Documentaire Twice Upon a Time, Paris, France
ReCNTR at Filmhuis Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
Festival Film Dokumenter Utopia/Dystopia, Yogyakarta Indonesia
Beirut Art Centre Lebanon
AWARDS
2019 Best Experimental Feature - Istanbul Experimental Film Festival
2019 Best Film - Doc Alliance Selection Award (Independent Jury award by the Doc Alliance partnership CPH:DOX, FID Marseille, Doclisboa, Visions de Réel, Dok Leipzig, Millennium Docs Against Gravity FF, Ji.hlava IDFF)
REVIEWS
Debordements Revue de Cinéma, Connecter Les Points (link)
Film Comment Magazine, Festivals: Doclisboa 2018 (link)
Film Krant (link)
TRAILER
Doclisboa Festival Int. de Cinema (International Competition, WINNER Doc Alliance Award Best Film) Lisbon, Portugal
Transcinema Festival Internacional de Cine (International Competition) Lima, Peru
Cinemigrante Festival Internacional de Cine, Buenos Aires, Argentina
FIDMarseille International Film Festival, Marseille, France
Doclisboa Festival International de Cinema, Doc Alliance Screenings Lisbon, Portugal
Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, Czech Republic
Istanbul Experimental Film Festival (International Competition, WINNER Best Feature) Istanbul, Turkey
Pravo Ljudski Film Festival (International Competition) Sarajevo, Bosnia
ICA: Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
New Horizons Film Festival, Visual Front, Wrocław, Poland
Kinu #3, Azkuna Zentroa, Society and Contemporary Culture Centre, Bilbao, Spain
BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Aesthetics of the Political, Brussels, Belgium
Gudskul 100 Hari Documenta 15, Jakarta, Indonesia
Light Cone / Rencontres du Cinéma Documentaire Twice Upon a Time, Paris, France
ReCNTR at Filmhuis Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
Festival Film Dokumenter Utopia/Dystopia, Yogyakarta Indonesia
Beirut Art Centre Lebanon
AWARDS
2019 Best Experimental Feature - Istanbul Experimental Film Festival
2019 Best Film - Doc Alliance Selection Award (Independent Jury award by the Doc Alliance partnership CPH:DOX, FID Marseille, Doclisboa, Visions de Réel, Dok Leipzig, Millennium Docs Against Gravity FF, Ji.hlava IDFF)
REVIEWS
Debordements Revue de Cinéma, Connecter Les Points (link)
Film Comment Magazine, Festivals: Doclisboa 2018 (link)
Film Krant (link)
TRAILER