Anatomy of Melancholy

Also in this combined programme

• Bienvenue

  • Ex Voto: Mapping the Heart

  A film like a rite of passage, restlessly exploring the interior of a haunted house.

• Convalescing

  • Ex Voto: Mapping the Heart

  Convalescing: when one is allowed not to take part in the world. Time to appreciate how much it actually is: to read to dream, to…
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  Meta-me

  • Ex Voto: Mapping the Heart

  A merry-go-round of thoughts by a solitary person, reflected on a screen of smoke.
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  Effigy – Specimens 4-12

  • Ex Voto: Mapping the Heart

  An atmosphere on the extreme edge of human existence, either within the womb or in the first moment after death.

• Concern

  • Ex Voto: Mapping the Heart

  A man observing the daily goings-on of his next-door neighbour. When does the moment of crossing a threshold come?

• Construire sa maison

  • Ex Voto: Mapping the Heart

  The process of sewing comprises an initiation: becoming conscious of your own boundaries, and respecting them, to give the place that you can to the…

• Spiral Vessel

  • Ex Voto: Mapping the Heart

  A found psychological test kit revealing the interior world of a science book, evoking mysteries more than revealing facts.

• Intrude Sanctuary

  • Ex Voto: Mapping the Heart

  Meditation on stasis and flux from a fixed point inside a underground train carriage, a particularly beautiful form of tunnel vision.
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  Still

  • Ex Voto: Mapping the Heart

  A quiet walk in and around the house, step by step, frame by frame, letting pictures become images.

• Awake but Dreaming

  • Ex Voto: Mapping the Heart

  Shot in the Hirschgang Oberer, an extended curved hallway at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, like an endless cycle.