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Passion Crucified

Directed by Gariné Torossian
Canada, 1997 (experimental, 18 minutes, colour)

Film Description:
"Passion Crucified is an episodic rite of passage rendered in tableau style. Part creation myth, part medieval science fiction, it enacts a typology of the body—offering us glimpses of Adam, Eve, Christ and Joan of Arc. Together they are figured as subterranean ideals, which continue to haunt us, even as they provide the means by which we might come to understand our own bodies. [...]"
-- Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (source)

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