Le Liquide is an experimental short film inspired by Jacques Deray’s ‘La Piscine’.
We observe a group of friends at a villa in the south of France, hanging around in a state of lethargy, boredom and indifference. Communicating with each other in minimal scraps of bad French, they are mostly seen slumped around the periphery of the pool or ghosting around the empty house. Though physically close, everybody seems to be trapped in isolation – lost somewhere between their human condition, the nature outside and the artificial pool in the center. Built as an artificial piece of nature within the “real“ nature, the swimming pool seems to accept only artificiality within itself. As the story unfolds more and more people start to vanish, only to be found dead in the water and subsequently re-appearing as underwater ghosts thrashing around in the depths at night, alongside the ever-present pool-robot, slinking around underwater mysteriously.
Everyone is waiting for something to happen, but we always miss the actual event, but as more and more people disappear, the threat starts to become more tangible.
