LATE NIGHT SHORTS

Manhattan, 1983. Tasked with helping her father run his deli on the night of its 24/7 opening, an unassertive teenager distracts herself with dreams of superstardom, while a few blocks away her idol David Bowie embarks on his first tour in five years.

A woman, blank-eyed in the middle of sex, begins to fantasize. In her mind, the first humans meet under a blazing sun—she undresses, he stares, his penis grows enormous. Out of clumsy curiosity, they crash together and accidentally invent sex. Snapping back to reality, still unsatisfied, she thinks: “I love you, but I just want to have good sex.” Infused with surreal humor, the scene blends comedy with desire.

“Four good friends travel through time and space for an alchemical and sensuous celebration full of phantasms. Familiar yet unexpected faces appear along the way.”

REDDENING is a genre-bender arthouse fantasy film, at the intersection of contemporary performance and experimental fiction. zodiakvisions.com/reddening

The title REDDENING refers to the final stage of alchemy; Rubedo, in which the alchemical transformation takes place. Historically, the practice of alchemy aimed turning base metals into silver and gold, but further, to reach Magnum Opus; divine illumination, heavenly bliss and the elixir of life.

Different disciplines considered the alchemical transformation to take place in the stratum relevant to them; materia, psyche, spirit. Nonetheless, for the transformation to occur, alchemists had to go through a transmutation themselves.

REDDENING explores how a film, as a sensuous object, can pleasure; repulse, nurture, and overall transmute the body of the audience.

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