Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World (1985)

Özet

Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World belongs to a 35-hour film cycle, The Book of All the Dead, which comprises the bulk of Toronto-based Bruce Elder’s filmmaking from 1975 to 1994. In ancient Egyptian culture, the Book of the Dead consisted of religious texts intended to help preserve the spirit of the departed in the afterlife — but in Elder’s reading, that comforting idea of continuity takes on a rather darker cast. Lamentations is comprised of a complex audio and visual patchwork: a philosophical meditation superimposed as text throughout the film; vignettes featuring a comical but disturbing Franz Liszt, a debate between Isaac Newton and George Berkeley, an angry, deranged man in an alley, and an arrogant psychiatrist; and a final search for salvation in the forests of British Columbia, the American Southwest, and Mexico’s Yucatan.

Oyuncular

• Robert Fothergill

  Narrator (voice)

• Kristina Jones

  Narrator (voice)

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  David King

  Isaac Newton

• James D. Smith

  Franz Liszt

• Tony Wolfson

  Bishop Berkeley

• Murray Pomerance

  Psychiatrist

• Bart Testa

  Lecturer

Ekip

Yönetmen

R. Bruce Elder

Senaryo

R. Bruce Elder

Yapımcı

R. Bruce Elder

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R. Bruce Elder

Müzik

Bill Gilliam

Kurgu

R. Bruce Elder