Glasgow Film Festival Ouroboros

An homage to the Gaza Strip and to the possibility of hope beyond hopelessness. Ouroboros, the symbol of the snake eating its tail, is both end and beginning: death as regeneration. An essay film taking the form of a love story, Ouroboros’ central character is a man with a broken heart who embarks on a circular journey to shed his pain, only to experience it again and again. In the course of a single day, his travel weaves together Native American territories, the ancient Italian city of Matera, a castle in Brittany, and the ruins of the Gaza Strip together into a single landscape.