Animated Objects

This short documentary film is conceived as a stroll through the valley of Thebes and the temple of Karnak.

Purged from its details, the image thus obtained offers a vision of this sculpture reduced to moving lights.

Conceived, drawn and animated live by a team of patients from a psychiatric clinic, this achievement presents, in the eyes of its author, less interest on a purely cinematographic level than on that of human experience. It is the disturbing wordless story of a woman and a man living in a strange setting where objects are endowed with life that they have chosen to tell us through this theater of shadow puppets in cut out figurines. Their characters will know a tragic fate since carried in the air by balloons, they will finally be devoured by a horrible dragon.

Organic forms are beating and resorbing, reflections dance to the rhythm of Henk BADINGS 'music, circles of light flash like disturbing eyes, perpetual metamorphoses evoke a great living and throbbing organism.

The term caustic designates optically the envelope of light rays undergoing reflection or refraction on a curved and shiny surface.