More Than Stagmant Water

“ The project creates a space for tragedy, where time stops when we penetrate this sea world beyond death, in the same way as the viewer is inmersed in this friendly fishbowl where nothing that we see is alive.” 

The project has its origin in two film scenes: In the first one, the mother (Shelly Winter) in The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955) is dead. The river currents her hair drifts under the water agitated by the river currents while on the surface one can discern a fisherman on a boat. 

The second, inspired by the first one, is the scene when the revisor (Jean-Marc Barr) inEurope (Lars Von Trier, 1991) drowns in his compartment after bombs explode in the train in which he travels. The train derails when crossing a bridge, it falls to the sea, Jean-Marc dies and the corpse floats in the water. 

FILM SELECTED 

The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955) 

Europe (Lars Von Trier, 1991)