Synopsis
Joseph is an elderly man living with Diogenes syndrome, a compulsive hoarding disorder that has left his apartment overflowing. For Messaline, who comes to help him clean, it becomes an opportunity to discover him in two ways: through their conversations, and through the objects he has accumulated—layered memories of a life lived in that apartment. This film, about memory, identity, and social ostracism, unfolds around the delicate, emerging relationship between the old man and the filmmaker.
A word from Tënk
On one side, the camera frame
Saturated with objects
It is at once compact
Sometimes concave, sometimes convex
But above all, like the waves
Sublime and dizzying
On the other, the off-screen
Open, airy
Soft and fragile
It moves like glaciers
Always in discontinuity with the visual
And sometimes even imaginary
At the intersections of both,
Then interwoven with long takes,
The scientific archive illuminates the conversations
Those of a great friendship
Propelled by an erudite, sensitive bubbling
Philosophical, poetic, mathematical
And somewhat deadpan
Through the interviews,
Water completes its cycle
Simple, generous, and sincere
The clouds fade away
Fortunately, there will always be the parasol
To shield us from the sun
Matthew Wolkow
Filmmaker and curious by profession
