Post Tenebras
Lux

A moment somewhere between
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CINEMA


An olfactive response to Post Tenebras Lux (2012), Carlos Reygadas's semi-autobiographical dreamscape moving through Mexico, England, Spain, and Belgium.Part of FOLIE's Le Cinéma Olfactif—scent as duration, extending moments that would otherwise pass unnoticed.

summary: MUSKY, ORIENTAL, MIST.
MATERIALS: oriental woods, mist, and clean skin accords.


»After darkness, light. Flesh and psyche dissolve in carnal vapor.«
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Post Tenebras Lux

Le Cinéma Olfactif

Director — Carlos Reygadas
Perfumer — Antoine Lie
Medium — Film
Status — Resting in Archive

03 / 2016

Series Statement

Minutes become moments. Frames become fragrance.

Le Cinéma Olfactif is not smell-o-vision. It is attention made aromatic. The scent tells you what to feel, what you might have missed.

Evocative, not illustrative. Fear rather than smoke. Absence rather than presence.

Not the explosion. Not the kiss.

Something quieter. Something true.

Launched in Berlin, 2014. Still going.

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Carlos Reygadas

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