The film « Tempus Fugit » is a recreation for the camera of the work by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui , the Flemish choreographer of Moroccan descent, and Les Ballets C. de la B.
The film is set in a magnificent Moroccan palm grove. A woman is at the centre of gravity, at its epicentre. The film’s heroine – pursued by an invisible presence – meets a prince. The prince falls madly in love with her, but she leaves him for another. Soon however, her past catches up with her…
The inspiration for « Tempus Fugit » lies without a doubt in the popular cinema of India with its great melodramas that blend dance, song, music and enchantment. Their complexity stems often – just as in Tempus Fugit – from the confrontation between tradition and modernity.