Woolf + Lapin is happy to welcome upcoming director Olivier Roberge. In Something in the Air, like in most of his work, Olivier likes to question the usual forms of narrative and invites the audience to take part in the story and contribute personally to the creation of meaning.
This kind of risk taking is modeled on the work of directors that he admires most: Bergman, Antonioni, and Tarkovski. Like them, the notion of not so linear forms of narratives are really what Olivier likes to experiment with. He gives a lot of breathing room to the audience’s interpretation. And banking on what is not said to communicate something vaster and more meaningful, rather than just complacently spoon feeding the audience, is really the crux of his work.
That is why communication, or the lack of it, is one of Olivier’s favored themes.