Journey Around My Room

Voyage autour de ma chambre

Belgium, France

2008

26 Min

Color

French

Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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DP Louis-Philippe Capelle, Olivier Smolders

ED Philippe Bourgueil, Olivier Smolders

Alone in his room, a filmmaker talks of territories and travels, real or imaginary, which have made or undone him. Using images gathered together over the years, Journey Around My Room questions, in a poetic way, the difficulty that each of has of finding his right place in the world. —uniFrance

Director

Olivier Smolders

Born in 1956 in Léopoldville (former Belgian Congo), Olivier Smolders completed his studies in Belgium. A graduate in Roman Philology (UCL) and lecturer at the University of Liège, he also teaches at INSAS (the Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle), the Brussels film school. He has written and produced his own short films via his own production company, Les Films du Scarabée.

He is currently one of the most innovative figures in cinematic – particularly Belgian, but also experimental – circles. The author of various books on literature and the cinema, he has also written numerous articles that have been published in different journals and magazines. His work as filmmaker, sustained by his background in literature, confronts text with image in a way that that challenges our perceptions. Cultivating all kinds of discrepancy, his films, dosed with derision, have about them a whiff of the “fantasy film”, in which domain Nuit Noire, his first full-length feature, would… read more