Antenna (film)

Antenna is a 1970 Dutch short film, directed by Adriaan Ditvoorst and starring Pierre Clémenti.

The film is centered around Aquarius, an eccentric and lonely artist who builds a raft, and navigates it down the Scheldt River.

Due to the rigidity within the convent, sex education does not exist and individuals are oppressed by the rules of the nuns' unwavering faith and religious practices.

Later, they meet a lonely hippie (resembling Jesus Christ) who lives on a farm and wants to spread love and peace to all by handing out free cannabis.

Antenna contains many themes typical to Ditvoorst's work from the 1970s: freedom of the individual; longing for a false utopia; the lonely and misunderstood artist; aversion to state control, bureaucracy and religious authorities; and absurd characters.