In a world without oceans, Linda discovers a mysterious company that offers immersive sea experiences.
Those fascinated with Alle Dicu’s film (and it’s not hard at all) must resist an impression of ineffability and find the right word. This can only be “primitive,” understood in its best sense, that of “primordial.” It is the story of a girl to whom a spectral advertisement sells the promise — somewhere between an epiphany and a scam — of seeing the sea again in a completely dry world. But the story, the script, is just a pretext: OUR SEA is a film of mise-en-scène, not so much about something, but containing something. Through its idiosyncratic editing, its untimely zooms, its magic lantern fascination with a marble surface (Dicu’s magnificent obsession) that is transformed by CGI into sea waves, the film does much more than tell the story of this strange girl, at a strange age and in a strange world. What OUR SEA does is to formally become one with her. (Călin Boto)
Alle Dicu is a Romanian filmmaker and visual artist whose work delves into the relationship between people and the material world. Her films often examine the ways in which humans interact with and assign meaning to objects and surfaces. Alle has cultivated a multidisciplinary practice centered on decorative stones, particularly marble, as a lens for exploring broader cultural, philosophical, and political ideas. In 2021, she completed her thesis at the Center of Excellence in Image Studies (CESI) in Bucharest, investigating how marble is imbued with social values and shapes political and religious discourses within architecture. During her residency at Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains (2022-2024), Dicu directed two short films that use marble to probe the fluidity of mental and physical images in contemporary life.
