Directed by Valerie Buhagiar |
Canada, 2018 (fiction, 75 minutes, colour, English / French / Tibetan) |
Film Description: "It's Hard to be Human brings you the visceral experience of God's daughter in the liminal place before death. Agnes is an 18-year old delinquent who can't figure out the point of life on earth. Her father (God) is a busy man, a torn husband, and too tired to nurture anyone; her mother self-medicate to oblivion. Her best friend Peter is an addict and a poet; Larry, her lover, strives for duty, marriage and the norm, because that's where his happiness is. And then there's Victoria, an enlightened spirit who emanates the heavenly; she's got something everyone wants, and because Agnes can't have her, she wants to destroy her. A surreal drama inspired by Strindberg's A Dream Play, It's Hard to be Human interweaves the real with an oneiric, almost-dead world. In this journey, we find out why Agnes, a pious girl gone bad, has abandoned God, and why he's forsaken her." -- HighballTV (source) |
Film Credits (partial): | |
Written by: | Valerie Buhagiar |
Produced by: | Johnny Hockin |
Principal Cast: | Nina Gilmour, Tom Wilson, Benjamin Muir, Deragh Campbell |
Cinematography: | Rudolf Blahacek |
Film Editing: | Peter Strauss |
Music: | Richard Feren |
Production Company: | Juniper Island Productions |