Odyssey
2018, film, 70 min
"An outstanding, innovative, ambitious and formally rigorous essay film, which treats a very contemporary topic of our society in a unique and playful manner. The film provides a complex, multi-layered rendering of the parallel and intertwined histories of nationalist, colonialist and thus racist structures in society."
— Jury Doc Alliance Award 2019
“Complex and rewarding (...) pointing to cinema’s potential to render strange the act of seeing and to the fragility of truth as a highly mediated, constantly renegotiated construct.”
— Ela Bittencourt / Film Comment
"It is through a poetic way that what is found behind these images can find a place into the visible from which it has been excluded."
— Debordements Magazine
"The winner of the section is Odyssey for the amazing re-orchestration of the archival sources, the original cinematic dispositif for narration, the cleverness of a critical/political analysis of the images, shifting from the past to the present and future."
— Paolo Simoni / Jury Istanbul Experimental Film Festival
2018, film, 70 min
"An outstanding, innovative, ambitious and formally rigorous essay film, which treats a very contemporary topic of our society in a unique and playful manner. The film provides a complex, multi-layered rendering of the parallel and intertwined histories of nationalist, colonialist and thus racist structures in society."
— Jury Doc Alliance Award 2019
“Complex and rewarding (...) pointing to cinema’s potential to render strange the act of seeing and to the fragility of truth as a highly mediated, constantly renegotiated construct.”
— Ela Bittencourt / Film Comment
"It is through a poetic way that what is found behind these images can find a place into the visible from which it has been excluded."
— Debordements Magazine
"The winner of the section is Odyssey for the amazing re-orchestration of the archival sources, the original cinematic dispositif for narration, the cleverness of a critical/political analysis of the images, shifting from the past to the present and future."
— Paolo Simoni / Jury Istanbul Experimental Film Festival
FULL REVIEWS
Debordements Revue de Cinéma, Connecter Les Points (link)
Film Comment Magazine, Festivals: Doclisboa 2018 (link)
Film Krant (link)
Film Comment Magazine, Festivals: Doclisboa 2018 (link)
Film Krant (link)
FESTIVALS & VENUES
Doclisboa Int. Comp, WINNER Doc Alliance Award Best Film Lisbon
Transcinema Festival Internacional de Cine (International Competition) Lima
Cinemigrante Festival Internacional de Cine, Buenos Aires
FIDMarseille International Film Festival, Marseille
Doclisboa Festival International de Cinema, Doc Alliance Screenings Lisbon
Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava
Istanbul Experimental Film Festival. WINNER Best Feature, Istanbul
Pravo Ljudski Film Festival (International Competition) Sarajevo
ICA: Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
New Horizons Film Festival, Visual Front, Wrocław
Kinu #3, Azkuna Zentroa, Society and Contemporary Culture Centre, Bilbao
BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Aesthetics of the Political, Brussels
Gudskul 100 Hari Documenta 15, Jakarta
Light Cone / Rencontres du Cinéma Documentaire Twice Upon a Time, Paris
ReCNTR at Filmhuis Den Haag, The Hague
Festival Film Dokumenter Utopia/Dystopia, Yogyakarta
Beirut Art Centre Lebanon
Transcinema Festival Internacional de Cine (International Competition) Lima
Cinemigrante Festival Internacional de Cine, Buenos Aires
FIDMarseille International Film Festival, Marseille
Doclisboa Festival International de Cinema, Doc Alliance Screenings Lisbon
Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava
Istanbul Experimental Film Festival. WINNER Best Feature, Istanbul
Pravo Ljudski Film Festival (International Competition) Sarajevo
ICA: Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
New Horizons Film Festival, Visual Front, Wrocław
Kinu #3, Azkuna Zentroa, Society and Contemporary Culture Centre, Bilbao
BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Aesthetics of the Political, Brussels
Gudskul 100 Hari Documenta 15, Jakarta
Light Cone / Rencontres du Cinéma Documentaire Twice Upon a Time, Paris
ReCNTR at Filmhuis Den Haag, The Hague
Festival Film Dokumenter Utopia/Dystopia, Yogyakarta
Beirut Art Centre Lebanon
AWARDS
2019 Best Experimental Feature - Istanbul Experimental Film Festival
2019 Best Film - Doc Alliance Selection Award (Independent Jury award by the Doc Alliance partnership CPH:DOX, FID Marseille, Doclisboa, Visions de Réel, Dok Leipzig, Millennium Docs Against Gravity FF, Ji.hlava IDFF)
2019 Best Film - Doc Alliance Selection Award (Independent Jury award by the Doc Alliance partnership CPH:DOX, FID Marseille, Doclisboa, Visions de Réel, Dok Leipzig, Millennium Docs Against Gravity FF, Ji.hlava IDFF)
