Starting with shiny rooftops and ending with the seemingly insignificant demise of the last circus elephant of its kind, The Dent weaves loosely linked events and irrational occurrences to reflect on collective failure and hopefulness. An anonymous little town struggles for international recognition as it becomes obvious that failure is a monster too big to slaughter. Their mayor resorts to hypnosis in the shape of a circus. An ambiguous dream that defies interpretation leaves the circus owner baffled. He wakes up to put his clowns and their wives to work. The consequences of this series of events hit the elephant where it hurts. Fate becomes its enemy.
Shot between Paris, New York, Brussels, Quebec, Basel, Madeira, Prague and Venice among other locations, the film constructs a narrative through gestures and indirect affiliations between layers of sound, image and text to respond to the absurdity of the little details that manifest into our reality. [Basim Magdy]
