Text Messages from the Universe
2019•1h 2m•6.0•Released
MusicDocumentaryFantasy
A film that immerses its audience in subjective states of consciousness they might experience when they die, imagining what they can see and think and hear in a seamless but fragmentary flow of poetic images, words and music. The viewer undertakes a journey into their own interior world of dreams and projections in which time and space, and cause and effect logic, are turned on their heads. Text Messages from the Universe is inspired by The Tibetan Book of the Dead, a text which guides souls on their journey of 49 days through the 'Bardo', or intermediate state, between dying and rebirth.
Director
Richard James Allen
Writer
Richard James Allen
Languages
English
Studio
The Physical TV Company
Cast
Richard James Allen
Dancer
Jay Bailey
Dancer
Lily Bones
Dancer
Andrea Briody
Dancer
Sonia Camara
Dancer
Bonnie Curtis
Dancer
Emma Dulvey
Dancer
Ryuichi Fujimura
Dancer
Jane Bones Gonscak
Dancer
Brayden Harry
Dancer
Stephanie King
Dancer
Dimitri Kleioris
Dancer
Brianna Law
Dancer
Catherine Moore
Dancer
Phillipa Mills
Dancer
Production
Company
The Physical TV Company
Producer
Richard James Allen
Producer
Marie-Stella McKinney
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