Olivier Smolders - Exercices spirituels aka Spiritual Exercices (2005)
2:56:00 Min | 720x560-512x384 | Xvid 1797-1938 kb/s | 29.97 fps | Ac3 192-224 kb/s | 2.71 GB
French | Subtitles: English and spanish .srt | Genre: Art-house
2:56:00 Min | 720x560-512x384 | Xvid 1797-1938 kb/s | 29.97 fps | Ac3 192-224 kb/s | 2.71 GB
French | Subtitles: English and spanish .srt | Genre: Art-house
Selection of shorts of Olivier Smolders.
"The exercises have to be adapted to the dispositions of the person who wishes to practice them, that is to his age, education and ability, in order not to give to one who is uneducated, weak or in poor health, things he cannot easily bear or profit by. Similarly, they should only be given to each person according to his availability."
Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises, 1548
LISTS OF SHORTS:
01.Adoration / Adoración (1987 - 15m50s - B&W)
Based on the real life story of Sagawa, a japanese student who killed, dismembered and ate a young dutch girl in Paris.
Resolución : 720x464 - Bitrate : 1919 kb/s
frames:28,481
Qf : 0.192
02.Mort à Vignole / Death in Vignole (1998 - 22m39s - B&W)
While staying on an island off Venice, a film maker questions the way in which personal and biographical issues play a role in stories about love and death.
Resolución : 512x384 - bitrate : 1867 kb/s
frames:40,729
Qf : 0.317
03.Point de fuite / Vanishing point (1988 - 9m56s - Color)
A surrealistic educational film
Resolución : 720x464 - bitrate : 1909 kb/s
frames:17,881
Qf : 0.191
04.L'amateur / The Amateur (1997 - 26m01s - B&W)
The story of a man who smells of women’s nudity
Resolución : 720x448 - bitrate : 1863 kb/s kbps
frames:46,812
Qf : 0.193
05.La philosophie dans le boudoir / Philosophy in the Bedroom (1991 - 12m52s - B&W)
First part of a dyptich based on the Marquis de Sade’s de Sade’s notorious Philosophy in the Bedroom.
Resolución : 720x480 - bitrate : 1886 kb/s
frames:23,153
Qf : 0.182
06.Ravissements / Rapture (1991 - 6m24s - B&W)
This is the second part of the “Philosophy in the bedroom“ dyptich. Based on the life of Teresa of Avila, a charismatic and controversial ascetic who had mystical visions.
Resolución : 720x496 - bitrate : 1938 kb/s
frames:11,526
Qf : 0.181
07.Pensées et visions d’une tête coupée / Thoughts and visions of a severed head (1992 - 24m41s - Color)
Portrait of an imaginary painter based on the life and the work of A. Wiertz
Resolución : 704x528 - bitrate : 1895 kb/s
frames:44,413
Qf : 0.170
08.Neuvaine / Novena (1984 - 28m44s - B&W)
A writer withdraws himself in his old school in order to find his lost imagination.
Resolución : 720x560 - bitrate : 1916 kb/s
frames:51,687
Qf : 0.159
09.L'art d'aimer / El arte de amar (1985 - 13m06s - Color)
Through the portrait of the various women who marked his life, a man tells how he ended to kill his mother.
Resolución : 720x544 - bitrate : 1900 kb/s
frames:23,585
Qf : 0.162
10.Seuls / Alone (1989 - 12m33s - B&W)
portraits of children in a psychiatric institution (has no spoken dialogs)
Resolución : 720x480 - bitrate : 1915 kb/s
frames:22,583
Qf : 0.185
11.Nuite Noire (trailer) (3m05s - Color)
Trailer for the movie (has no spoken dialogs)
Resolución 720x432 - bitrate : 1838 kb/s
frames:5,552
Qf : 0.197
12.Exercices spirituels / Spiritual Exercises (para Court-Circuit) (2005 - 5m52s - B&W)
Smolders reflects on the art of cinema.
Resolución : 656x512 - bitrate : 1944 kb/s
frames:10,555
Qf : 0.193
13.Images amoureuses, images de mort / Romantic images, images of death (para Court-Circuit) ( 2003 - 2m27s – Color)
The fascination of Smolders difficulty for portraits of unknown men and women
Resolución : 720x560 – bitrate : 1797 kb/s
frames:4,407
Qf : 0.149
ABOUT OLIVIER SMOLDERS
Born in 1956 in Léopoldville (former Belgian Congo), Olivier Smolders completed his studies in Belgium. A graduate in Roman Philology and lecturer at the University of Liège, he also teaches at INSAS, 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…
COMMENT
From his first dark and disturbing efforts to the rough sentimentalism of Mort à Vignole, via the tragic and dazzled gaze of the poignant Seuls or the gory excess of Adoration, Smolders’ cinema speaks to us from a dissident, outlying and amoral setting, a wonderfully dangerous world where he never revels in things, where he never repents and where he invites us, roughly at times, to sink into the mire with him…
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