NMIFF welcomes the entry of a short film " Mendacium " from Hong Kong , DIRECTED by Alex Genneopoulos.

"Mendacium is a 2013 graduate short film project created and directed by student Alex Genneopoulos. The story is based on the famed artwork of surrealism artist René Magritte. The character in Mendacium closely resembles the basis from a lot of the characters that can be seen in Magritte’s artwork. The character reveals his frustration throughout seven of Magritte’s paintings. Emphasize can be found on Magritte’s influence and inspiration on the dream theories of famed psychologist Sigmund Freud. The character’s truth of daily life, primarily anger and worry, are revealed trough the distortion and untruthful symbolization of apples."

Country: Hong Kong