Vacío Luminoso – Films – Visions du Réel

Uberto Rapisardi
Spain, France | 2026 | 87 min
World premiere
Languages : English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Catalan
Subtitles : English, French

Filmmaker Oliver Laxe leads his crew and a group of ravers deep into the desert to shoot his feature, Sirāt. Within the confines of his hotel room in Morocco, something unspoken lingers in his chest as Laxe opens up for a recorded conversation. As filming intensifies in the barren landscape, the film begins to inhabit those who take part.

Throughout his arduous journey through the desert and the years it took to make the award-winning Sirāt, Oliver Laxe was accompanied by the faithful and attentive Uberto Rapisardi, who captured the preparation and the shoot, as well as moments of solitary reflection, profound communion, discouragement and elation, creating a unique behind-the-scenes account that takes on a life of its own. At the heart of Vacío Luminoso is a dialogue between the two directors. Filmed during a break in the gruelling shoot, it sees Laxe looking back at the inspiration behind a project conceived over ten years earlier, while also addressing the doubts that plague him, as a kind of trial run for the Q&As that await him. Rapisardi is interested not only in documenting the working methods and emotional highs on set, which the film does brilliantly, but also in exploring the fine line between the representation of the rave scene and the risk of exploiting it, as well as the tension between the concrete constraints of film production and the radical spiritual freedom pursued by ravers.

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