Olivier Smolders

01 de jan. de 1987

01 de jan. de 1992

In a world overtaken by eternal darkness, the buttoned down entomologist abandons his phantoms to embrace the unknown.

03 de out. de 2005

Based on the real life story of Sagawa, a Japanese student who killed, dismembered and ate a young Dutch girl in Paris.

02 de fev. de 1987

Ten films written and directed by Olivier Smolders too freely inspired by the work of Ignace de Loyola

The camera slowly pans through a room as Smolders offers various observations and memories.

05 de fev. de 2008

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 ...

11 de jun. de 2018

The theme of death is heavily interwoven in Smolder’s surreal salute to Belgian painter Antoine Wiertz, a Hieronymus Bosch-type artist whose work c...

01 de jan. de 1991

Some footage and shots of expressionless actresses seen in Ravissements are repurposed in La philosophie dans le boudoir / Philosophy in the Boudoi...

01 de jan. de 1991

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...

01 de jan. de 1984

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 (r...

01 de jan. de 1985

Modest meditation on youth, life and mortality made up almost entirely from professionally made family films. What is more heart-rending than seein...

01 de jan. de 1998

Mental anguish is all that's present in the film Seuls / Alone (1989). Shot like a grungy medical documentary, Smolders and co-director Thierry Kna...

26 de jan. de 1989

La part de l’ombre recovers the life of the Hungarian photographer Oskar Benedek, who disappeared the day his exhibition opened; what happened to h...

01 de fev. de 2014

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. The sile...

01 de dez. de 1996

On vacation in the countryside, a filmmaker thinks about the mourning of his parents. As their faces, and most especially their gaze, fades away, h...

09 de dez. de 2021

A small, empty boudoir slowly becomes populated by a series of young women, their still and open expressions gradually engulfing the screen, as a n...

01 de jan. de 1991