Olivier Smolders
Directing
Biography
No biography available for Olivier Smolders.
Born: January 4, 1956
Place of Birth: Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Known For
Mad in Belgium
A cinematographic “cadavre exquis”, whose entrails reveal the odd nature of a (un)certain Belgian cinema. Authors, directors, actors who have proved that imposture could be an act of creation. Convinced that any so-called “new” cinematographic production was in fact a rehash of what had already been made, these pirates of images snuck as forgers, liars, tricksters, usurpers, … Outlaws of the cinema who falsified its form. From the filmed imposture of Man Bites Dog to Jan Bucquoy’s fabulist biopic, everything participates in the dynamiting of institutional language through simulacrum and absurdity. This free journey in the “cine-belgitude” has for vocation to approach these marvellous eccentrics followers of a overexcited and stripping situationism.
Images of love, images of death
In this short film, Smolders theorizes about the effect of the gaze of strangers on the viewer, particularly in terms of what happens to these models after they have been captured by the image, by the camera.
Filmography
as Himself