A wife, unable to escape anxiety and despair, becomes pathologically obsessed, suspecting her husband will leave her. The husband, unable to endure his wife any longer, finds them both sinking deeper into an inescapable swamp.
Once upon a time there was a couple. They lived in a grey winter reality. HE was a charming French photojournalist and gentleman, while SHE was a young and restless Bosnian artist. One morning, they left their grey smog reality in their nouvelle-vague old timer. They passed through a tunnel and found themselves in a colorful summer reality. On the road to the coast, their relationship is constantly questioned. Finally, in this very Paradise-on-Earth, does their love come to an end?
When a shadowy figure instructs two different men to take out the same woman, they end up at her home at the same time and must fight each other through absurd situations to be the one to complete the assignment.
A forbidden love story played out in a decade that would soon spawn the sexual revolution. Part historical documentary and part experimental narrative the film reconstructs a mesmerizing and erotic narrative from 60 hours of reel-to-reel audiotape discovered in a suitcase. Recorded in the 1960's by a Mid-western woman and her lover they chronicle the details of their adulterous love affair. Reliant on recording devises to document and memorialize their affair the tape recorder evolves as a confidant, witness and participant, always omnipresent creating a welcomed threesome. Mirroring the compulsion to confess ones indiscretions in today's Internet world these captivating recordings speak to an audience that can remember Bert Parks as well as one who has never set finger to a rotary phone.
"Saviors" offers viewers a voyeuristic glimpse into the boundless expanse of possibility within bdsm, a softer side not often portrayed in media, through the sensual rituals of Shibari (rope bondage) with dominatrix Azriel Black Wolf. The film is accompanied with synthesizer music by John Paul Bohon. "Saviors" is in part a continuation of Cecilia's first short film, untitled Experimental Erotica #1. Self-experiential, dream-like visuals of sensorial processing bliss, juxtaposing softness and the taboo.
A deadly virus has forced humanity into its four walls, but life must go on. The answer to this problem is our dummies, mechanical effigies that allow us to live through them. But the solution, although it was once described as temporary, seems more permanent than ever.
The film was made in the context of the 5th Panorama Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the theme DEACTIVATION.