Melusine, 2010
Country: UK
Director: Tereza Stehlíková
Score: Phil Dawson
Running time (in minutes): 9.53
Melusine is based on the idea (explored by the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard as well as the Surrealists) that the meeting of early childhood experiences (marked by daydreams) with the spaces in which such moments come to life is very close.
Indeed, this merging is often so intimate that it erases the division between interior and exterior, and between objectivity and subjectivity, thus creating a seamless landscape inhabited by the imagination. This is a unique, poetic but also extremely precise, materially present territory, one that holds indefinitely the various elements of an individual’s life.
By returning to the city (Prague), building and home of my childhood, I have sought to trace some of the poetic landmarks of my own psyche in its development, while also exploring more archetypal aspects of childhood memory.
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