Our Ode to Joy
"TO LOSE SIGHT IS TO SEE EVERYTHING"
As his vision fades, a man known only as The Fool journeys inward-through nature, memory, and haiku-to find not just solace in what is slipping away, but meaning in the quiet beauty of being.
"TO LOSE SIGHT IS TO SEE EVERYTHING"
As his vision fades, a man known only as The Fool journeys inward-through nature, memory, and haiku-to find not just solace in what is slipping away, but meaning in the quiet beauty of being.
Elia Mimkakis
The Fool
Rion Emery
The Woman
Evan Woofter-Kim
The Old Man
Tiernan Tajalli
The Employee
As his vision fades, a man known only as The Fool journeys inward-through nature, memory, and haiku-to find not just solace in what is slipping away, but meaning in the quiet beauty of being.
Mr. K, a traveling magician, finds himself in a Kafkaesque nightmare when he can’t find the exit of his hotel. His attempts to get out only pull him deeper, entangling him further with the hotel and its curious inhabitants.
A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.
A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.
Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early twentieth century. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, by self-hypnosis he manages to travel back in time—where he meets her.
After a stroke and no memories from his past, Phil encounters Millie who inhabits a desert part of Isle of Lewis. She will shortly entrust him with his deepest secret : they were in love.
A tough, street-smart kid serving a sentence in a state youth reformatory meets a beautiful, innocent girl studying at a nearby convent. When forbidden love blossoms between them, they must fight the prison authorities, their parents and the law.
When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project with the Duke and Duchess of Towers. When Peter and the duchess become great friends, she reveals that she is Mary — but the duke soon suspects his wife of infidelity and challenges Peter to a duel, threatening the pair's second chance.
Sarah and David are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live important moments from their respective pasts, illuminating how they got to where they are in the present... and possibly getting a chance to alter their futures.
A series of uncanny déjà vu events force a man to re-examine his tragic past, memory, instinct, and future.
A bureaucrat interviews five souls to decide which of them will be given a life on Earth. But he soon faces an existential challenge of his own.