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Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

10/10/1985

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7hrs 17min

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Mystery

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Robert Fothergill
  • Kristina Jones
  • David King
  • James D. Smith
  • Tony Wolfson

    Director

  • R. Bruce Elder

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Lightworks

    Production Countries

  • Canada

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Kristina Jones

Narrator (voice)

David King

Isaac Newton

James D. Smith

Franz Liszt

Tony Wolfson

Bishop Berkeley

Murray Pomerance

Psychiatrist

Bart Testa

Lecturer

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