Orpheus meets Cerberus (2020)
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General Information
Completed On: 10 Apr, 2020
Duration: 5 min 40 sec
Genres: Animation
Language: english
Country: Australia
Submitted By: Orryelle Defenestrate
Festival Rating
A combination of stop-animation, sculpture and live action were used to create this meeting of the Ancient Greek bard Orpheus with the 3-headed monstrous guardian of the Gates to Tartarus (the Underworld). The Guide between, three-faced Hekate, is also encountered where Three Roads Meet...
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DirectorsOrryelle Defenestrate-BasculeAlchemical Chess
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ProducersOrryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
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WritersOrryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
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Editor/animatorOrryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
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Film TypeAnimation
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GenresMythic,esoteric
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Runtime5 minutes 40 seconds
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Completion Date10 Apr, 2020
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Production Budget0 USD
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Country of OriginAustralia
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Country of FilmingAustralia, Belgium
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Film Languageenglish
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Film ColorColor
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Student ProjectNo
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First-time FilmmakerNo
Director's Biography
Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule is a hermetic artist in many media, including painting, writing, sculpture, sound, film and performance art.
He is the writer-director of Australian-originating Metamorphic Ritual Theatre Company who have presented around the world many major original productions based in (and updating/mutating) various ancient mythos.
Creator of the Tela Quadrivium alchemical book series from UK art publishers Fulgur Press (Conjunctio, Coagula, Solve, Distillatio).
Director's Statement
I am interested in the ensoulment of objects through aesthetic obsession; the merging of mental, spiritual and emotional relationships with creativity, in the vanguard of the current resurgence of the esoteric in art with its processes of re-enchantment.
The interplay of the figurative/representational and the abstract, the organic and ’synthetic’ (the actual and the virtual) are aspects of these explorations, which aim to delve below the surface of things...