Movie Description
Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
(1985)Overview
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.
Featured Crew
- Director : R. Bruce Elder
- Producer : R. Bruce Elder
- Writer : R. Bruce Elder
- Editor : R. Bruce Elder
- Cast : Robert Fothergill,Kristina Jones,David King,James D. Smith,Tony Wolfson,Murray Pomerance,Bart Testa
Cast
Narrator (voice)
Narrator (voice)
Isaac Newton
Franz Liszt
Bishop Berkeley
Psychiatrist
Lecturer
Posters
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Orchestra Class
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Facts
Original TitleLamentations: A Monument for the Dead World
Status Released
Release Information
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1985-10-10
Original LanguageEnglish
Runtime 07h 17m
Production CompaniesLightworks
Genres
- Mystery
