The title splits the experience into two categories: "Pensées" (Thoughts) and "Visions" (Sights).
Pensées et visions d’une tête coupée (1991) is a 26-minute Belgian art-house short film directed by Olivier Smolders that surrealistically explores the life and dark, ambitious work of 19th-century painter Antoine Wiertz. The film mixes archival footage of Wiertz's art with graphic, thematic depictions of decapitation, suicide, and eroticism . The film is available for streaming on pensees et visions d 39-une tete coupee -1991- ok.ru
Clément draws on multiple traditions:
The voiceover begins, a man’s whisper in French: "Je pense, donc je ne suis pas." (I think, therefore I am not.) The title splits the experience into two categories: