Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey

Absent Now the Dead

January 2021 •English

The ghost of a soldier from the Trojan War travels through the ruins of the ancient world to confront a council of tyrants who make war on reason. A film dramatizing the ancient relevance of protest over power. Available Now on: watch.eventive.org

Ulysse est revenu

July 1978 •French

Ulysses' Gaze

October 1995 •Greek

An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.

The Painted Bird

September 2019 •Czech

After losing his parents, a young Jewish boy wanders Eastern Europe, seeking refuge during World War II.

Strike Night

December 2017 •French

This atmospheric French independent film tells the story of a man who has traveled nearly 10,000 miles to find the woman he can’t forget.

Ulysses

October 1954 •Italian

A movie adaptation of Homer's second epic, that talks about Ulysses' efforts to return to his home after the end of ten years of war.

Elliot

October 2017 •English

Set in the dark depths of a strange and mysterious power supply complex, ELLIOT tells the tale of a conflicted humanoid (Elliot) struggling to maintain his reality and understand his true identity. Elliot is thrust into a disconcerting downward spiral of despair in which he is forced to recognize the perils of his own cognition and constructed ideals in a crumbling universe where the lines between fantasy, simulation, and reality are blurred, and the fibers of Elliot’s fragile existence are ruptured.

The Ulysses Project

July 2022 •English

An irreverent, modern, non-traditional re-telling of Ulysses, told rapidly by a succession of over 75 international actors. The film maintains the rhythm of the novel's stream of consciousness with intimate, minutely nuanced provocative performances.

Siblings

March 2016 •German

The siblings Bebe and Mikhail leave their country of Moldova to apply for asylum in Germany. Their flight turns into a modern odyssey.

Spectres

December 2021 •Latin

Three ancient heroes encounter the spectres of their dead loved ones and struggle to let them go.

Darkside

September 2022 •English

When an unthinkable tragedy disrupts the lives of astronaut Sam Bowman and his wife Sarah, Sam accepts an interstellar mission to save the lives of a missing crew on a deep space voyage, abandoning his life on Earth in the process. But when a critical failure leaves him without a crew, and without hope, he's forced to reckon with a harrowing guilt he can no longer avoid.

O Die Zee

December 2014 •English

O Die Zee is a modern Dutch retelling Homer's Odyssey in the form of a rock opera. It was performed in the summer of 2014 in the open air of Fort Rammekens, The Netherlands.

Ulysses' dog

September 2024 •Portuguese

20 years have passed since Ulysses went to fight in the Trojan War. Now he's considered lost and deceased. In Itaca, his homeland, his old dog Argos awaits his owner, wondering if he'll ever come back.

Амулет

October 2013 •Russian

Unsuspecting photographer Odyssey from uncle got a vintage locket with great power - the amulet of Alexander the great. To Odysseus, which is about the power of the treasures knows nothing, dear gangsters, ready for anything...

The Schnitzler Case

November 2020 •English

A Private Detective investigates a mysterious gang.

The Mystery of the Trojan Horse

March 2021 •German

The story of the Trojan Horse is probably one of the most famous stories ever told: after ten years of bloody war, the Greek coalition decides to lift the siege and depart, but not before leaving at the gates a huge wooden horse, which the Trojans confidently lead into the city. A few hours later, the once invincible Troy goes up in flames. What exactly happened? Is this myth true or false?

Ramble On

April 2005 •English

A keen rambler gets more than he bargained for when a walk in the country takes him on an increasingly surreal odyssey.

Stabat Mater

January 1990 •English

Stabat Mater opens and closes with two sung laments, then launches into a breathless torrent of words and phrases, a re-reading of the eternal feminine of Joyce’s Ulysses, which echoes the exultant/feverish swoop of the camera through a Mediterranean landscape

Pythéas, l'astronome voyageur

November 2013 •French

Gods and Monsters: Homer's Odyssey

November 2010 •English

Virginia Woolf said that Homer's epic poem the Odyssey was 'alive to every tremor and gleam of existence'. Following the magical and strange adventures of warrior king Odysseus, inventor of the idea of the Trojan horse, the poem can claim to be the greatest story ever told. Now British poet Simon Armitage goes on his own Greek adventure, following in the footsteps of one of his own personal heroes. Yet Simon ponders the question of whether he even likes the guy.