Melvin Moti

Melvin Moti (Rotterdam, 1977) usually makes silent films: layered narratives with which he tries to get a grip on immaterial things such as time and space in order to place our perception in a broader perspective.
His first feature film Dreamlife (90 minutes) is based on the experiences of the French scientist Michel Siffre, who in 1972 withdrew for six months in a cave. Cut off from the outside world, deprived of time and daylight, he investigated his biorhythm. In the film we see how the main character loses all sense of time in complete isolation. Moti drags us into an increasingly oppressive depth. The fact that his film premiered at De Pont in December 2020, just before we experienced the consequences of isolation ourselves due to the lockdown, is a bizarre coincidence.