Belgium, 9th october 1979. A cook drills a hole in the door to the "camera obscura" (lat. dark room) of his boss, a persian-american carpet dealer, who lives together with two women and a narcistic drunkard in a dark carpet-cave. All the characters walk a fine line between professional and private life, between dependence and exercise of power trying to save his/her love. Blatant voyeurism rules. The characters mutually spike their feelings whenever possible driving wedges of... (Full plot summary below)
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Belgium, 9th october 1979. A cook drills a hole in the door to the "camera obscura" (lat. dark room) of his boss, a persian-american carpet dealer, who lives together with two women and a narcistic drunkard in a dark carpet-cave. All the characters walk a fine line between professional and private life, between dependence and exercise of power trying to save his/her love. Blatant voyeurism rules. The characters mutually spike their feelings whenever possible driving wedges of love into one another's flesh. Masochistoic institution grows out of romance, which portrayal degenerates into a comedy.Heinz Emigholz analyzes patterns of human behaviour transforming into sentence-picture-units arranging them with only little narrative orientation. His film appears to be a carpet woven of different relationship-patterns transforming phrases like "to dominate someone without him/her knowing." or "to kill someone by loving him/her." into surreal entities. The confusing title attracts many film students assuming to watch some kind of documentary about the basics of make-up. My advice: Impose this movie on yourself and experience how pictures beyond comprehension take a life on their own. In your head after having switched off the DVD-player...