Peter Sant

In a crowded seaside town in Malta, Dimitrios drifts through a world of concrete, haunted by a mysterious past and detached from the world around him, until he meets Annie. Like him, she has a child she never sees, has suffered love's disappointments, and lives without freedom or companionship. Fate draws them together, yet circumstances pull them apart.

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Sant films two age-old olive trees as if they are engaged in lively conversation. He uses the classic film grammar of reverse shots, mostly in close-up. It does require subtitling to clarify their arguments. Not that it matters much, as the trees actually have nothing to say to each other anymore.

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On an island an old man wracked with dementia dreams he was once a king. Together with his two daughters they exist in the wake of a bizarre malady of mysterious origin on a land devoid of animal life.

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A study into man-made landscapes that was shot over a period of 4 weeks in Malta.

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I Yam What I Yam...L'invenzione' is centered around the collision of two films originally shot on the same location; Emidio Greco's 'L'invenzione di Morel' (1974) and Robert Altman's 'Popeye' (1980). In Greco's film a shipwrecked man stumbles upon an ultra-modernist mansion. In it he finds a group of people trapped in a perpetual present facilitated by a machine that's capable of reproducing reality. Sant's reinvention of this film is shot on the same location, follows the same storyline, but occupies another world. In place of the mansion, he finds himself in 'Sweethaven' - the set of Altman's 'Popeye'. Though there is no trace of Greco's set, Altman's 'Sweethaven' remains - echoing Greco's plot by existing as an open-air museum where costumed entertainers re-enact scenes.

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In a crowded seaside town in Malta, Dimitrios drifts through a world of concrete, haunted by a mysterious past and detached from the world around him, until he meets Annie. Like him, she has a child she never sees, has suffered love's disappointments, and lives without freedom or companionship. Fate draws them together, yet circumstances pull them apart.

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On an island an old man wracked with dementia dreams he was once a king. Together with his two daughters they exist in the wake of a bizarre malady of mysterious origin on a land devoid of animal life.

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I Yam What I Yam...L'invenzione' is centered around the collision of two films originally shot on the same location; Emidio Greco's 'L'invenzione di Morel' (1974) and Robert Altman's 'Popeye' (1980). In Greco's film a shipwrecked man stumbles upon an ultra-modernist mansion. In it he finds a group of people trapped in a perpetual present facilitated by a machine that's capable of reproducing reality. Sant's reinvention of this film is shot on the same location, follows the same storyline, but occupies another world. In place of the mansion, he finds himself in 'Sweethaven' - the set of Altman's 'Popeye'. Though there is no trace of Greco's set, Altman's 'Sweethaven' remains - echoing Greco's plot by existing as an open-air museum where costumed entertainers re-enact scenes.

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