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Atopia

Olivier De Vos, Belgium, 2021, 18’
DocLisboa

2023

Go Short

2023

An introspective essay about the search for a place between reality and imagination: a placeless place made up out of dreams and a longing for fluidity. Slowly, the grains of the compressed image become the sands of the atopic beach, revealing an imaginary place.

Atopia (Olivier De Vos, 2021)
Atopia (Olivier De Vos, 2021)
essay
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De stranden van Atopia

Olivier De Vos’s Atopia (2021)

Ren Scateni
20.12.2023

Through a multilayered construction of archive materials, digitised as well as contemporary pictures, and original footage, De Vos charts their journey to the beaches of Atopia—a placeless place, brimming with both mesmerising potentiality and impossibility, a place you could be homesick for without being able to locate it exactly. As elusive as this promised land it invites viewers to, Atopia refuses easy classifications and finds a transitory place between fiction and documentary, between imagined ethnographic investigation and a research-led use of archival videos and photos to back up De Vos’s personal cognitive meanderings.

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Credits

Cast
Adrien De Biasi, Jérôme Pauly, Macha Bouteiller
Editor
Ciska Slowack, Olivier De Vos
Sound
Hugo Simons
Music
Eliott Delafosse
Film school
RITCS School of Arts
188
essay documentary fiction poetry portrait queer

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The Jungle Knows You Better Than You Do

Juanita Onzaga, Belgium, Colombia, 2017, 20’

Two siblings roam the mystical landscapes of Colombia, searching for their dead father's spirit. Their journey takes them from the city of Bogotá to the jungle, through realms of thought and deep into their haunted dreams.

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My Uncle Tudor

Olga Lucovnicova, Belgium, Portugal, Hungary, Moldova, 2020, 20’

After twenty years of silence, filmmaker Olga Lucovnicova returns to her great-grandparents’ home, where she endured traumatic experiences that left a lasting impression on her memory.

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Impossible Figures and Other Stories II

Marta Pajek, Poland, 2016, 15’

A woman trips and falls while rushing around the house. She gets up only to discover that her home has unusual features—it is built from paradoxes, filled with illusions, and covered with patterns.

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Blow Up My Town

Chantal Akerman, Belgium, 1968, 13’

A young woman, played by Chantal Akerman herself, enters her flat in Brussels and begins a household routine that gradually degenerates. Parodying the everyday, she mops the floor, polishes her shoes, and sticks tape over the cracks in the door, thereby giving domestic life an explosive twist.

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Because We Are Visual

Gerard-Jan Claes, Olivia Rochette, Belgium, 2010, 47’

By means of visual material gathered from online sources, filmmakers Olivia Rochette and Gerard-Jan Claes create a unique poetic realm in which thoughts, fears, desires, and worries are shared via webcam, and merge together.

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Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory

Louis Lumière, France, 1895, 1’

A man opens the large gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France, in 1895. Through the gate and a smaller door next to it, workers stream out for lunch. Once all the workers have left the factory, the gatekeeper closes the gate again.

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Water and Salt

Luisa Mello, Belgium, Brazil, 2019, 10’

A journey through the consciousness of a woman whose country is under threat from a fascist government.

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Note on Multitude

Ibro Hasanović, Belgium, Kosovo, 2015, 8’

Intimate, emotional, and sometimes violent moments of farewell: men, women, and children leave their homes for an (unknown) future as migrants.

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