Consume

Film directed by Dominic Angerame in 2003.

Synopsis
Starring Zhanna. Pomolusya ('I Will Pray') Ukranian Prayer performed by Zhanna, recorded and mastered by Zak May. Excerpts from 'Lyrical' and 'Chaos' from the tribe recording of Gabrielle Roth and the Mirrors with permission from Raven Recording

Film notes
'Inspired by the novel FLICKER by Theodore Roszak, this film was intended to explore the images captured in the flickering light of multiple projector beams. By utilizing superimpositions within the camera, one could experience the pulsating light and explore hidden imagery through use of the 'Sally Rand' that Roszak refers to.
However, once production began...the projector beams began to put both myself and my actress into a trance state due to the strobe light it presented...the resulting film turned into a trance by natural evolution and in essence the film becomes even more...
It becomes an exploration into oneself and the sense of seeing and being at the same time...both an inward journey and an outward one... --Dominic Angerame

'Before you can scarcely catch your breath, suddenly the feast and is bleeding and you're bloody it. You're fully awake now and love's tearing you apart. Your body is becoming the Serenghetti of appetite, in savageness, the ground of being itself alive, eating itself numb into satiety, blindness, night. Just hang on. This too shall pass out. Wake up and smell the coffin. Egypt can't be that far off. The bottom line. The ground floor of the pyramid scheme. You can count on Isis in a crisis, brother. She'll have you in stitches come the Spring. Limbs rise up laughing with the disinterred perfumes of loss and renewal. But right now you'll have to chill into something Tibetan. And remember to say tanka. Tankas for everything. And Kaliuga to you too, yearling. And yes, I'm happy to have been of use. Bon appetit. And I didn't really know, it ís true, that I could be a twelve course meal for you. You all, I mean. No, I promise, nothing personal. I won't take any of this personally. Let's keep it simple. Whatever it takes then, after all, to be restored to this throne of blood and light. --Ronald F. Sauer

Author: 

Year: 

2003
Technical data

Original format: 

16mm

Speed: 

24FPS

Aspect ratio: 

1.37:1

Colour: 

Colour & B&W

Sound: 

Optical

Length: 

10 minutes

Distribution/sales: 

Copies for rent:
Canyon Cinema
Light Cone

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