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Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World (1985)
Directed by R. Bruce Elder
“A meditation that deals with the state of human consciousness in the postmodern world...”
History, Mystery · 7h 17m
Like Ezekiel's vision in the valley of dry bones, a typos of a new beginning. In among all the feelings of loss and deprivation occur intimations of the final culbute general, of the dissolution of time, of a now that vanishes between the no longer and the not yet. 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.
Cast
David King
Crew
- Director
- R. Bruce Elder
- Writer
- R. Bruce Elder
- Director of Photography
- R. Bruce Elder
- Original Music Composer
- Bill Gilliam
- Editor
- R. Bruce Elder
- Producer
- R. Bruce Elder
Details
- Release date
- 1985-10-10
- Runtime
- 7h 17m
- Genres
- History, Mystery
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Canada
- Production
- Lightworks