Odyssey
by Sabine Groenewegen
Synopsis
Two undefined intelligences are intercepting earthly footage of humans living in an area known as the Low Lands. The researchers exchange their findings through a visual feed, in an attempt to understand the occurrence of extraordinary apparitions. The onlookers’ efforts to understand an enchanted human world are interrupted by another signal which imposes itself on the unfolding investigation, resulting in a play with the logic of the production of meaning. Through a combination of found footage, sci-fi and poetry Odyssey interrogates the visual rhetoric of whiteness in the specific Dutch colonial project and evokes questions about the stories we’re told and our possibilities to disrupt them.
Credits
Direction: Sabine Groenewegen
Script: Sabine Groenewegen, Olivier Marboeuf
Camera : Sabine Groenewegen
Sound : Sabine Groenewegen
Music : Karsten Fundal
Producer : Olivier Marboeuf
Associated Producer: Cédric Walter
Production : Spectre Productions, Travelling Waves, Argos, Stenar Projects, SIC
More Information
Year: 2018
Duration: 61’
Press :
Odyssey reviewed in Debordements [FR]
Film Comment: Doclisboa 2018 review, by Ela Bittencourt, November 15, 2018
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Projections – Screenings
Riarrr, ReCNTR X Glued & Screwed at Filmhuis den haag, NL, 05/2023
Cinéma Le Mélies, LIGHT CONE, Les Rencontres du cinéma documentaire/ Peripherie, Paris, FR, 01/2023
Documenta 15 – Gudskul Ecosystem, Jagakarsa, Jakarta, Indonésie, 08/2022
Aesthetics of the Political – SIC, Bozar, Bruxelles, BE, 2021