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Directed by Michael Lee | 65 minutes | R 18+ | 50th Anniversary |
12:30pm Sunday, 17 May | Balam Balam Place - Cinema 3 | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes
A mindmelting collage of sex, death, animation, and Catholicism by Australian underground filmmaker Michael Lee.
Co-Presented by Unknown Pleasures
A disturbing cinematic opera from Melbourne filmmaker Michael Lee, presenting an intense emotional collage of film clips, original footage, and complex object animation to work through the filmmaker’s traumatic Catholic experience.
In other words: sex, death, god, and guilt kaleidoscoping and cascading out of the screen and deep into your skull. The movie of a young man at peak angst and creative drive, The Mystical Rose is a provocative spectacle that envelops and overwhelms with psychedelic imagery and stolen radio hits. Ultimate kino! See it big!
SIMILAR: The Grand Bizarre, L’Ange (1982), Neon Genesis Evangelion, Paul Sharits
“This visually dazzling film [has] dozens of jaw-dropping images created with drawings, photography, fake blood & prosthetics, stop-motion animation and puppetry, and even what looks like some kind of nude illusionism. It would kill on the big screen.” - Lucinda Mason, BUFF Programmer
“This experimental film has a great soundtrack and wild vibe, somehow seems like an insane trip and also sombre enough in its iconoclasm. The mesmerising rhythm makes 65 mins fly by.” - Eloise, Letterboxd
CONTENT WARNING: unsimulated sex, animal slaughter
Country: Australia
Year: 1976
Language: English