While everyone around him seems to fight for the right to be themselves, Miles celebrates the right to be no-self. And he invites everyone to the party. When his friend Solta visits him in Berlin, he hatches the plan to track him down. Their journey of a zero with a thousand faces takes off. Miles lures his friend on a trip through his life, through the minefields of identity politics, and through the black hole of our oblivion of what the world could be. In Solta’s hopelessly failed attempt to picture Miles, the outlines emerge of a man as a risky promise, as a still slightly out-of-control prototype for the future. A man who owns almost nothing but is connected to nearly everything. Ultimately, they arrive in Ireland, the troubled land of his childhood. There, his urgency for the time we share, and his joyous resistance, run out of hand, like an untenable marble.
Pieter Solta
Pieter Solta is a Belgian filmmaker. He made the shortfilms The Entrance and Solar. He studied philosophy in Paris 8, before he took the name Solta, he has written and directed 40 theaterplays and performances, published short stories, a novel and essays. His work is published and presented in many languages and countries, and been regularly invited to significant festivals. My friend Miles is his first feauture film. He’s second feature film is in postproduction, his third in development.
