Herman Gilis

Sometime in the future. The government's policy towards euthanasia and the public's demand for extreme fights meet. People with the 'aggression gene' go through a severe selection procedure and take part in in fights to the death broadcasted live on TV. Temmink is one of them. (motelfilms.nl)

Between documentary and fiction, The master and the giant approaches the topic of the rivalry in the creation: a first God created the world, a second God destroyed it to build one new, better. Myth and reality meet in this film that puts in scene two different universes: a man and a woman in a neighborhood in demolition of Amsterdam, and images of the life in the confines of the tunecian Sahara. (KG)