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Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World (1985)

8.27h 17mDocumentary
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Synopsis

Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World belongs to a 35-hour film cycle, The Book of All the Dead, which comprises the bulk of Toronto-based Bruce Elder’s filmmaking from 1975 to 1994. In ancient Egyptian culture, the Book of the Dead consisted of religious texts intended to help preserve the spirit of the departed in the afterlife — but in Elder’s reading, that comforting idea of continuity takes on a rather darker cast. Lamentations is comprised of a complex audio and visual patchwork: a philosophical meditation superimposed as text throughout the film; vignettes featuring a comical but disturbing Franz Liszt, a debate between Isaac Newton and George Berkeley, an angry, deranged man in an alley, and an arrogant psychiatrist; and a final search for salvation in the forests of British Columbia, the American Southwest, and Mexico’s Yucatan.

Movie Information

Director
R. Bruce Elder
Writers
R. Bruce Elder
Release Year
1985
Runtime
437 minutes
Genre
Documentary
Language
EN
Country
Canada
Status
Released
Rating
8.2 / 10 (6 votes)

Top Cast

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Robert Fothergill
Narrator (voice)
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Kristina Jones
Narrator (voice)
David King — cast portrait as Isaac Newton
David King
Isaac Newton
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James D. Smith
Franz Liszt
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Tony Wolfson
Bishop Berkeley
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Murray Pomerance
Psychiatrist
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Bart Testa
Lecturer

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