Synopsis:
Director Biography - Serge Delpierre
Serge Delpierre started making films as a teenager in Montreal and now works as a film/TV professional. Claims to fame include working on American Idol, doing PR for the Discovery Channel and meeting Joss Whedon at the corner of Constellation and Avenue of the Stars on a very rainy night. Directing highlights include a quite humorous introductory video for First Lady Hillary Clinton’s appearance at Discovery’s annual meeting.
Director Statement
Life’s journey often plays tricks on us, sending us in a direction then throwing all sorts of obstacles in our way. This is the power of Homer’s Odyssey, as it provides powerful mythic analogs to many of the challenges we face not just over the years, but on a day to day, hour to hour basis - the adventures that constantly divert us from what we seek to accomplish in our daily dance of figurative birth and death.
“Odyssey” weaves this notion with the ever-present fabric of technology that permeates our modern life, allowing us to travel from destination to destination with an ease never before seen, but now hardly acknowledged.
I’m reminded of the story where an older fish is swimming alongside two younger fish and he asks them how the water is today, to which they reply, “What’s water?”