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7.2/10 • 4

1985-10-107h 17m

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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.

Directors
R. Bruce Elder
Writters
R. Bruce Elder
Editors
R. Bruce Elder, R. Bruce Elder

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  1. Robert Fothergill

    Robert Fothergill

    Narrator (voice)

  2. Kristina Jones

    Kristina Jones

    Narrator (voice)

  3. David King

    David King

    Isaac Newton

  4. James D. Smith

    James D. Smith

    Franz Liszt

  5. Tony Wolfson

    Tony Wolfson

    Bishop Berkeley

  6. Murray Pomerance

    Murray Pomerance

    Psychiatrist

  7. Bart Testa

    Bart Testa

    Lecturer

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
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