Completed - ENGLISH - Black comedy, First film, Drama - 88 minutes
Soldiers are lost in endless woods; a child is menaced by a shape-shifting doctor and an outcast yearns for a tone-deaf singer. Hailed by Filmmaker Magazine as “an astonishing, out-of-nowhere film”, Go Down Death is a distinctively original work informed by American Gothic and outsider art.
Year of production : 2013 Director(s) : Aaron SCHIMBERG Writer(s) : Aaron SCHIMBERG Cast : Bryant PAPPAS, Doug BARRON, Liliana VELASQUEZ, Lucy KAMINSKY, Rayvin DISLA, Sammy MENA, Simone XI Producer(s) : Vanessa MCDONNELL (Post-Original Productions), Caroline OLIVEIRA
Go Down Death is a wry, sinister realization of a strange new universe, a cross-episodic melange of macabre folktales supposedly penned by the fictitious writer Jonathan Mallory Sinus. An abandoned warehouse in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, stands in for a decrepit village haunted by ghosts, superstition, and disease, while threatening to buckle under rumblings of the apocalypse. Soldiers are lost and found in endless woods; a child gravedigger is menaced by a shape-shifting physician, a syphilitic john bares all to a young prostitute, and a disfigured outcast yearns for the affections of a tone-deaf cabaret singer. Highlighted by offbeat narrative construction, stunning black-and-white 16mm cinematography and immaculately detailed production design, Go Down Death is a distinctively original film informed by American Gothic, folk culture and outsider art.
Country(ies) : USA Start of shooting : February 2012
Fantasia IFF 2013 Official Selection