Ouroboros (2017)

"Death as birth history as the present the end as the beginning"Movie
Audience Score
50
Ouroboros
This film is an homage to the Gaza Strip and to the possibility of hope beyond hopelessness Ouroboros the symbol of the snake eating its tail is both end and beginning death as regeneration A 74minute experimental narrative film that turns the destruction of Gaza into a story of heartbreak Ouroboros asks what it means to be human when humanity has failed Taking the form of a love story the films central character is Diego Marcon a man who embarks on a circular journey to shed his pain only to experience it again and again In the course of a single day his travel fuses together Native American territories the ancient Italian city of Matera a castle in Brittany and the ruins of the Gaza Strip into a single landscape