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    guise

    • 1997
    • 00h 10m 00s
    • Wrik Mead
    • Rent $100
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    Synopsis

    guise is an adult fairy tale for the 90s. Arising from the earth, a body discovers its nakedness. A suit of armour becomes a metaphor for the trappings of identity. Pixilated to produce the effect of a human marionette, accompanied by a good-natured verse. guise is by turns dark and humorous.

    Categories

    • Experimental,
    • LGBTQ2S+

    Shooting Format

    • 16 mm

    Languages

    • English

    Additional Details

    • Colour,
    • Mono,
    • Sound

    Available Subtitle

    • None

    Region

    • Central Canada

    Screening Formats

    • 3/4 tape (umatic),
    • 16 mm,
    • AppleProRes,
    • Beta SP,
    • H.264

    Credits

    • Director: Wrik Mead

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    • CFMDC Logo

    More By Wrik Mead

    Winter’s End

    • 2010
    • Wrik Mead

    A wintery sun sets on a scene of loss and mourning. The grieving protagonist plummets capriciously from one state of sadness and confusion to another. Battered by forces malevolent and absurd, mirroring his unpredictable emotional states, he repeatedly falls into an avalanche of ice. Down into a barrage of helping hands, down into a winter forest, down into rooms full of memories, and finally down into the place where he must accept the truth.

    Winter’s End

    Ache

    • 2008
    • Wrik Mead

    Two male blow-up dolls become puppets in this short. Not only is one of the men out of air, but both of them are tragically out of synch with one another.

    Ache

    Hand Job

    • 2001
    • Wrik Mead

    A lonely figure walks to a private screening room. What he is getting excited about is not what it may appear.

    Hand Job

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