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by Jeremy MOSS
2018 / 16mm / color-b&w / sound and silent / 1S / 61' 35
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A fantasia of post-indoctrination, immigration, and iconography. A pageant of wanderers and searchers: Mormon missionaries, a pioneer, polygamists, scouts, hunters, church-goers, and an aspiring prophet walk and walk and walk. A pilgrimage of memory, history, ancestry, and place.
An experimental documentary that interrogates and explores the seeds of the filmmaker's own religious indoctrination and eventual apostasy. He revisits the European landscapes where his ancestors were converted to Mormonism in the 1800s. He examines the desert places they colonized in the American West. He returns to Brazil and interviews individuals he had converted to the faith twenty years ago.
I, Apostate draws upon the modes of the essay film and surrealist documentary, and captures much of its retrospective and introspective content on hand-processed 16mm film. Directly manipulated and destroyed celluloid can mirror physical and emotional systems of erosion and decay where undetermined textures and artifacts remain after diverse refining processes and distillations. Through a series of formal and gestural transgressions, the film deals with the experience of conversion and indoctrination, the pain of apostasy, and the discomfort and contentment from never fully breaking free.
post production:
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4 PRINTS IN DISTRIBUTION
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distribution format |
Digital file on USB stick (FHD) |
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screen |
1,37 - Standard (single screen) |
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speed |
23,976 fps |
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sound |
sound |
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original language |
English |
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rental fee |
193,00 € |
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distribution format |
DCP on server (SMPTE 2K) |
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screen |
1,37 - Standard (single screen) |
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speed |
24 fps |
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sound |
sound |
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original language |
English |
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translation |
French (Embedded subtitles) |
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rental fee |
193,00 € |
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distribution format |
Digital file on USB stick (FHD) |
|
screen |
1,37 - Standard (single screen) |
|
speed |
23,976 fps |
|
sound |
sound |
|
original language |
English |
|
translation |
French (Embedded subtitles) |
|
rental fee |
193,00 € |
|
distribution format |
DCP on server (SMPTE 2K) |
|
screen |
1,37 - Standard (single screen) |
|
speed |
24 fps |
|
sound |
sound |
|
original language |
English |
|
rental fee |
193,00 € |
