Divinity
Divinity
United States
Executive produced by Steven Soderbergh, Eddie Alcazar's sophomore science-fiction film is an equally alluring and nightmarish vision of the future.
In a barren, otherworldly future, scientist Sterling Pierce has dedicated his life to the quest for immortality, creating the building blocks of a serum named “Divinity.” Jaxxon Pierce, his son, now controls and manufactures his father’s once-benevolent dream. Two mysterious brothers descend from the heavens with a plan to abduct the mogul.
Programmer's note:
In the original Midnight Movie tradition of Eraserhead and El Topo, Eddie Alcazar’s Divinity offers a retro-futuristic, Musk-brained vision of humanity at its worst, in which vanity, hedonism and the cult of CEOs have reached their terminal velocities. Both a cautionary tale and zeitgeist-tapping delirium, Divinity unfolds as trippy parade of alternately chiseled and grotesque bodies, psychedelic computer graphics and prosthetic SFX (look out for the arcade-inspired stop-motion sequence); something like a forbidden Outer Limits episode… beamed from a glass jar brain sitting on the shelf of mad scientist’s spaceship en route to Planet B… A cult classic in the making.
—Ariel Esteban Cayer
The screening on Friday 20 Oct will be proceeded by an extended intro with Candice Tan from distributor Utopia.
Australian Premiere
In a barren, otherworldly future, scientist Sterling Pierce has dedicated his life to the quest for immortality, creating the building blocks of a serum named “Divinity.” Jaxxon Pierce, his son, now controls and manufactures his father’s once-benevolent dream. Two mysterious brothers descend from the heavens with a plan to abduct the mogul.
Programmer's note:
In the original Midnight Movie tradition of Eraserhead and El Topo, Eddie Alcazar’s Divinity offers a retro-futuristic, Musk-brained vision of humanity at its worst, in which vanity, hedonism and the cult of CEOs have reached their terminal velocities. Both a cautionary tale and zeitgeist-tapping delirium, Divinity unfolds as trippy parade of alternately chiseled and grotesque bodies, psychedelic computer graphics and prosthetic SFX (look out for the arcade-inspired stop-motion sequence); something like a forbidden Outer Limits episode… beamed from a glass jar brain sitting on the shelf of mad scientist’s spaceship en route to Planet B… A cult classic in the making.
—Ariel Esteban Cayer
The screening on Friday 20 Oct will be proceeded by an extended intro with Candice Tan from distributor Utopia.
Australian Premiere
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Divinity
FRI, OCT 20, 7:00 PM
Screen Festival
Executive produced by Steven Soderbergh, Eddie Alcazar's sophomore science-fiction film is an equally alluring and nightmarish vision of the future.
In a barren, otherworldly future, scientist Sterling Pierce has dedicated his life to the quest for immortality, creating the building blocks of a serum named “Divinity.” Jaxxon Pierce, his son, now controls and manufactures his father’s once-benevolent dream. Two mysterious brothers descend from the heavens with a plan to abduct the mogul.
Programmer's note:
In the original Midnight Movie tradition of Eraserhead and El Topo, Eddie Alcazar’s Divinity offers a retro-futuristic, Musk-brained vision of humanity at its worst, in which vanity, hedonism and the cult of CEOs have reached their terminal velocities. Both a cautionary tale and zeitgeist-tapping delirium, Divinity unfolds as trippy parade of alternately chiseled and grotesque bodies, psychedelic computer graphics and prosthetic SFX (look out for the arcade-inspired stop-motion sequence); something like a forbidden Outer Limits episode… beamed from a glass jar brain sitting on the shelf of mad scientist’s spaceship en route to Planet B… A cult classic in the making.
—Ariel Esteban Cayer
The screening on Friday 20 Oct will be proceeded by an extended intro with Candice Tan from distributor Utopia.
Australian Premiere
Divinity
SAT, OCT 21, 9:15 PM
Screen Festival
Executive produced by Steven Soderbergh, Eddie Alcazar's sophomore science-fiction film is an equally alluring and nightmarish vision of the future.
In a barren, otherworldly future, scientist Sterling Pierce has dedicated his life to the quest for immortality, creating the building blocks of a serum named “Divinity.” Jaxxon Pierce, his son, now controls and manufactures his father’s once-benevolent dream. Two mysterious brothers descend from the heavens with a plan to abduct the mogul.
Programmer's note:
In the original Midnight Movie tradition of Eraserhead and El Topo, Eddie Alcazar’s Divinity offers a retro-futuristic, Musk-brained vision of humanity at its worst, in which vanity, hedonism and the cult of CEOs have reached their terminal velocities. Both a cautionary tale and zeitgeist-tapping delirium, Divinity unfolds as trippy parade of alternately chiseled and grotesque bodies, psychedelic computer graphics and prosthetic SFX (look out for the arcade-inspired stop-motion sequence); something like a forbidden Outer Limits episode… beamed from a glass jar brain sitting on the shelf of mad scientist’s spaceship en route to Planet B… A cult classic in the making.
—Ariel Esteban Cayer
The screening on Friday 20 Oct will be proceeded by an extended intro with Candice Tan from distributor Utopia.
Australian Premiere
