1978

Maud meets artists she likes and easily connects with, Marwa Arsanios, Bart Capelle, Teja Reba, Dylan Tighe, Lian Bell and Bara Kolenc; she discovers 1978 is their common birth year. Is this a coincidence?

1978 is an absurdist opinion documentary, a random act of art, an open and possibly unanswerable question to the year Maud Hendricks was born in. "It's an autobiographical search for existential meaning when approaching my fifth decade and when civic structures seem to be fast-forwarding towards a new world (dis)order." 

With three artists Lian Bell, Bara Kolenc and Dylan Tighe, this film touches the skin of a year: the air that we breathe, the eyes we meet, the food we taste, the zeitgeist, social and cultural conditioning, the natural environment, the materiality we first connect with, the ads, the radio stations and the broadcasters, the wars that are happening. 

This film is unconventional nonsense, with improbable thought connections making sense. It will leave you wondering about your own entry year into this earthly paradigm.