It premiered once, at the 1991 Belfort Entrevues Film Festival. The reaction was reportedly visceral—not from gore, but from profound unease. A critic from Cahiers du Cinéma called it "a two-reel panic attack on the nature of the soul." Then, the film vanished. Fournier, disillusioned by the industry, reportedly destroyed the master negative and moved to a Buddhist monastery in the Ardèche. Only a single, worn 16mm print was rumored to exist in the hands of a private collector in Lyon.

A second comment, from a user who claims to have tracked down the uploader, simply states: "archive_spectre7 logged in last in 2006. Four years before ok.ru even existed."

Ce court-métrage de 1991 est une œuvre indispensable pour les amateurs de : (Antoine Wiertz). Cinéma d'art et essai/expérimental . Thèmes macabres et sombres dans l'art.

Smolders rejects the traditional documentary format, instead "chopping up" the narrative to reflect the fragmented nature of Wiertz’s own mind.

: Subtitled cuts—like the prominent Sub Esp version uploaded on OK.ru—allow non-French speakers to fully grasp the heavy philosophical monologues delivered in the film.