After losing her boyfriend in a mysterious mass extinction event, in which all the men in the world die by suicide, Joyce seeks solace at Nostalgyl, a company helping women reconnect with their past experiences. But when her emotional dependence turns into addiction, Joyce is swept into the dark recesses of a post-masculine world.
With its intense colour palette, inventive prosthetics and intricate editing, Gonzalo Fernandez’s dystopian psychodrama Venus plunges the viewer into a lurid universe of an oppressive atmosphere. Lingering close to Joyce’s perspective, the film shuttles rapidly between reality and fantasy, experience and memory, such that we come to share the protagonist’s anxiety and confusion. Drawing elements from sci-fi and body horror, Venus opens the door to a nightmarish fantasy of a mythical nature.
– Srikanth Srinivasan
Venus screens as part of the ‘Koolhoven presenteert‘ programme.
Also in this combined programme
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Memory Dealers
A band of renegades combat technocratic sobriety with homemade hallucinogens in a tongue-in-cheek dystopian fantasy. -
Trauma Porn Club
Looking for more life experience, an aspiring artist stumbles into a world of dark fetishes.
Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2024
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2024
- Length
- 43'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
