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Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

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Calorie Rating: 614
Released: 1985-10-10
Running Time: 437 Minutes
Studios: Lightworks,


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.

Director / Directors



Cast

Robert Fothergill
Character: Narrator (voice)
Kristina Jones
Character: Narrator (voice)
David King
Character: Isaac Newton

James D. Smith
Character: Franz Liszt
Tony Wolfson
Character: Bishop Berkeley
Murray Pomerance
Character: Psychiatrist

Bart Testa
Character: Lecturer


Production and Crew

R. Bruce Elder
Director of Photography

Bill Gilliam
Original Music Composer
Maria Finta
Makeup Artist