Olivier Smolders Trailers
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Most Popular Olivier Smolders Trailers
Total trailers found: 22
A Matter of Perspective Trailer (1987)
01 January 1987
A young teacher is the victim of a cruel joke. When she enters the classroom, all her pupils are naked, standing near their bench.
Mad in Belgium Trailer (2022)
29 June 2022
A cinematographic “cadavre exquis”, whose entrails reveal the odd nature of a (un)certain Belgian cinema.
Adoration ou la transsubstantiation Trailer (1987)
02 February 1987
Based on the real life story of Sagawa, a Japanese student who killed, dismembered and ate a young Dutch girl in Paris.
La philosophie dans le boudoir Trailer (1991)
01 January 1991
Some footage and shots of expressionless actresses seen in Ravissements are repurposed in La philosophie dans le boudoir / Philosophy in the Boudoir (1991), wherein Smolders takes extracts from the Marquis De Sade’s nutbar text and applies them to scenes of a man in a prison cell, and single or groups of women often standing with the same blank expressions as the man.
Neuvaine Trailer (1984)
01 January 1984
The title (NOVENA in English) refers to the nine days of prayers undertaken in Roman Catholicism as an act of devotion or penitence with the aim of obtaining a state of grace.
Masks Trailer (2021)
09 December 2021
On vacation in the countryside, a filmmaker thinks about the mourning of his parents. As their faces, and most especially their gaze, fades away, he starts meditating on masks as passages to the afterlife.
L'art d'aimer Trailer (1985)
01 January 1985
L’art d’aimer / The Art of Loving (1985), another colour short, is probably the weakest of the ten films, mostly because it’s a blurry monologue (read by Smolders) from the perspective of a man confused about past events from his youth, and the fate of his mother.
Seuls Trailer (1989)
26 January 1989
Mental anguish is all that's present in the film Seuls / Alone (1989). Shot like a grungy medical documentary, Smolders and co-director Thierry Knauff intercut shots of several children at a Belgium psychiatric clinic.
Thoughts and Visions of a Severed Head Trailer (1991)
01 January 1991
The theme of death is heavily interwoven in Smolder’s surreal salute to Belgian painter Antoine Wiertz, a Hieronymus Bosch-type artist whose work centered on humans in various stages in torment, as depicted in expansive canvases with gore galore.
Black Night Trailer (2005)
03 October 2005
In a world overtaken by eternal darkness, the buttoned down entomologist abandons his phantoms to embrace the unknown.
Ravissement Trailer (1991)
01 January 1991
A small, empty boudoir slowly becomes populated by a series of young women, their still and open expressions gradually engulfing the screen, as a nun narrates an account of religious rapture.
Axolotl Trailer (2018)
11 June 2018
A man accepts a concierge job, which comes with a small apartment, in an old building and, locked inside his lodgings, undertakes a strange job of grieving.
La part de l’ombre Trailer (2014)
01 February 2014
On February 7, 1944, the day of the opening of a major exhibition of his work, the Hungarian photographer Oskar Benedek disappeared.
La légende dorée Trailer (2015)
31 January 2015
Collector of cursed musicians, unreasonable assassins, or suicidal hermits, a patient in a psychiatric institution has a historical gallery of characters that haunt him.
Journey Around My Room Trailer (2008)
05 February 2008
The camera slowly pans through a room as Smolders offers various observations and memories.
Mort à Vignole Trailer (1998)
01 January 1998
Modest meditation on youth, life and mortality made up almost entirely from professionally made family films.
The Lover Trailer (1996)
01 December 1996
A bereft filmmaker asks a series of women to pose nude for his camera in this striking and moody short film by Belgium's Olivier Smolders.
Exercices spirituels Trailer (2005)
28 April 2005
Reflections in a surrealist tone about the art of cinema.
Memories of a Friend Trailer (2025)
01 January 2025
The film's author recounts his memories of a rebellious childhood friend.
Lynch Empire Trailer (2011)
01 January 2011
Some David Lynch films revisited through plans by Bergman, Lang, Bunuel, Hitchcock, Fellini and a few others: didactic montage directed by Olivier Smolders on a proposal from the ART BLOW UP site, a the occasion of the broadcast of Twin Peaks.
Images of love, images of death Trailer (2005)
17 November 2005
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.
