Olimpia (2024)
Olimpia (2024) ‘Olimpia’ is a short film inspired by E.T.A. Hoffmann’s celebrated short-story ‘Der Sandmann’ (c.1816-17) – re-imagined from the point of view of Olimpia, the automaton that becomes the love-object of the protagonist. Hoffman’s story prefigures the genre of ‘weird fiction’ in literature, an early example that explores the...