The Cutting

This experimental thriller is a blood-curdling balancing exercise between humour and horror. Three young men experience what it is like when reality starts to wilt. How can you have any faith in anything you ever learned and believed if you see with your own eyes that persistent reality is no more than an illusion? What happens if reality starts to fall apart in such a way that it no longer obeys the laws we impose on it? And what if there are no laws at all, if everything is pure chance?
Wout, Frank and Paul are, for unclear reasons, trapped in a sunken road. No matter how hard they try to escape, they always return to the same place. One of them is wounded. The second one tries to heal him. So who’s the third one? (Catalogue Film Festival Rotterdam, 2001)