The rain starts to fall.
A dog who has wandered outside his usual territory, driven by a desire to hunt out what lives far away and confident in his sense of smell, suddenly loses the scent of his homeward journey. The rain has washed away all traces of it.
This is the image that inspired Rain Dogs, which represents those complexities and contradictions that characterise our relationship with the world and our relations with others.
When the search for a meaning loses all points of reference, uncertainty and disorientation seem to make it impossible to return home, to what was and is no more.
This is the moment when solitude and confusion manifest themselves in their most diverse forms; with irony and drama, with lightness or desperation.
“I thought that if I succeeded in capturing even just a part of all this then I would perhaps succeed in doing what I wanted.”
