What would a dream be were it not a dream? A memory? From a post-apocalyptic tone to a comedy populated by sui generis characters, “Delenda Carthago”, like a sentence at the end of an oratory, obsessively pursues the story of a recurrent dream, told by different voices, but always with the same ending: a deserted city, which could be Paris with its boulevards, or any other city, as long as it has been emptied of people, as if everyone had suddenly disappeared. The only voices that can be heard are those of mannequins, who take advantage of the silence to talk but are interrupted by the presence of a character who wanders around carrying a backpack. “Delenda Carthago” is the fifth short by French filmmaker Guillaume Orignac, who makes his debut at Curtas. (MM)