Olivier Smolders Movies
- 1987
A Matter of Perspective
A Matter of Perspective6.11987HD
A young teacher is the victim of a cruel joke. When she enters the classroom, all her pupils are naked, standing near their bench. Their clothes are...
- 1987
Adoration
Adoration6.51987HD
Based on the real life story of Sagawa, a Japanese student who killed, dismembered and ate a young Dutch girl in Paris.
- 1992
Les Sept Péchés capitaux
Les Sept Péchés capitaux51992HD
- 2005
Black Night
Black Night72005HD
In a world overtaken by eternal darkness, the buttoned down entomologist abandons his phantoms to embrace the unknown.
- 2018
Axolotl
Axolotl5.22018HD
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...
- 2022
Mad in Belgium
Mad in Belgium22022HD
A cinematographic “cadavre exquis”, whose entrails reveal the odd nature of a (un)certain Belgian cinema. Authors, directors, actors who...
- 1984
Neuvaine
Neuvaine61984HD
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...
- 1991
Thoughts and Visions of a Severed Head
Thoughts and Visions of a Severed Head51991HD
The theme of death is heavily interwoven in Smolder’s surreal salute to Belgian painter Antoine Wiertz, a Hieronymus Bosch-type artist whose...
- 2008
Journey Around My Room
Journey Around My Room6.22008HD
The camera slowly pans through a room as Smolders offers various observations and memories.
- 2005
Exercices spirituels
Exercices spirituels62005HD
- 1989
Seuls
Seuls6.31989HD
Mental anguish is all that's present in the film Seuls / Alone (1989). Shot like a grungy medical documentary, Smolders and co-director Thierry...
- 1991
La philosophie dans le boudoir
La philosophie dans le boudoir51991HD
Some footage and shots of expressionless actresses seen in Ravissements are repurposed in La philosophie dans le boudoir / Philosophy in the Boudoir...
- 1985
L'art d'aimer
L'art d'aimer61985HD
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...
- 1998
Mort à Vignole
Mort à Vignole5.31998HD
Modest meditation on youth, life and mortality made up almost entirely from professionally made family films. What is more heart-rending than seeing...
- 2021
Masks
Masks02021HD
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...
- 2014
La part de l’ombre
La part de l’ombre7.42014HD
La part de l’ombre recovers the life of the Hungarian photographer Oskar Benedek, who disappeared the day his exhibition opened; what happened...
- 1996
The Lover
The Lover5.71996HD
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 silent...
- 2015
La légende dorée
La légende dorée52015HD
Collector of cursed musicians, unreasonable assassins, or suicidal hermits , a patient in a psychiatric institution has a historical gallery of...
- 1991
Ravissement
Ravissement4.51991HD
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...
- 1970
Images of love, images of death
Images of love, images of death01970HD
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...