Set in a mid-century American psychiatric hospital where time seems to stand still. The story follows Jean, a French artist and inpatient, and Monique, a young woman who becomes fixated on him after being transferred to the facility following a failed escape attempt.

The Arc above all is a road movie, and a journey, a modern day odyssey, not dissimilar in mood and tone to Antonioni’s existential trips through the disembodied sensibilities of his characters.

It consists of only nine ten minute segments. Each shot/sequence was filmed only once in 35mm film with direct sound. The complexity and ground breaking originality of these shots has obtained widespread international acclaim.

A German businessman travels to Norway to finish the impossible translation of some poems into Chinese, a project of his late wife.