Movie Description
Giantbum
(2008)Overview
Taking language, the most important means of social interaction as his starting point, Mellors has created a visual spectacle which leads the viewer through the various phases of a script. As theatrical as it is absurd, the script relates the course of an expedition that set out in the year 1213. A band of starving explorers is trapped within a giant's body. Sent off by his followers the group's spiritual leader, The Father, attempts to find a way out through the giant's entrails. The Father returns to the group 'born-again', having survived by cannibalism and coprophagia (eating faeces). He 'recycles' himself and becomes potentially everlasting. This leads to reflections on his ontological situation and has bad implications for his followers as he becomes increasingly cultish and manipulative, claiming the group is not lost inside the body of a Giant, but inside the bowels of God...
Featured Crew
- Director : Nathaniel Mellors
- Writer : Nathaniel Mellors
- Cast : Gwendoline Christie
Cast
Facts
Original TitleGiantbum
Status Released
Release Information
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2008-05-28
Original Language
Runtime 00h 55m
Production CompaniesTHE BOX Studio
Genres
- Fantasy