Olivia, haunted by a past love that lives under her bed, trades flowers with it for comforting rain clouds. Barbara, rejected by Mauricio, escapes reality through fantastical stories. Mauricio, full of regrets, is swallowed by the earth. Ramon, smitten by Olivia, witnesses the growth of a strange plant mirroring her. The film surreally explores the enduring power of love's memory.
Olivia y las nubes
Dominican Republic / 81 min / 2024 / fiction
DFW Premiere
in Spanish with English subtitles
Direction: Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat
Screenplay: Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat
Producers: Amelia del Mar Hernández González, Fernando Santos Díaz
Cast:
Héctor Aníbal, Olga Valdez, Elsa Núñez, Dominique Goris, Fery Cordero
f you could deconstruct love and touch a moment of its essence, what would that look and feel like? In his experimental debut feature, Tomás Pichardo Espaillant uses a collage of stop motion animation, graphic sketching and Claymation over a rich soundscape that complicates how we memorialise and remember intimacy. An ode to love told through time, space and the unreliable source of memory. - Lesedi Oluko Moche