Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis is a hybrid mockumentary exploring the symbolic, visceral world of artist Olivier de Sagazan and his lifelong obsession with bodies, decay, and rebirth. Blending staged sequences with documentary texture, the film follows a fictional sculptor whose creations echo the ambiguous border between the living and the inanimate.

Shot with a dark, tactile, immersive aesthetic, the story examines how the artist’s rituals with clay, cadavers, and effigies become metaphors for identity shedding and the struggle to reinvent oneself. As the sculptor’s work grows stranger, the film blurs reality and performance, suggesting that the transformation unfolding on screen might be happening within him as much as around him.

Metamorphosis stands as a haunting reflection on art, mortality, and the compulsion to dissolve one’s own face to reveal something unspeakably human underneath.