The film is a cousin to works by Michael Snow ( Wavelength ) or Chantal Akerman ( Je, tu, il, elle ), where the form is the content. The slow, almost unbearable contemplation forces the viewer into a meditative state.

Pensées et visions d'une tête coupée (Short 1991) - Plot - IMDb

The year 1991 saw the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of the Gulf War. Clément writes in an atmosphere of ideological decapitation: old certainties (Marxism, progress) are falling. The "head" of European reason is severed from its historical body. Her book thus becomes a requiem for Enlightenment humanism, asking: What thoughts survive when your body—your context, your class, your nation—is gone?