The Oracle

Overview

Set in Port Townsend, San Francisco, and the "bardo terrains of the soul realm," this promising 70-minute debut feature (shot in Hi-8 and 3/4" video and Super 8 film) is a visionary exploration of an elderly bedridden man's interior journey toward death and beyond. It's also a sometimes humorous, sometimes heartrending portrayal of his family's changing perceptions of the process of death. It follows the final day in the life of an elderly patriarch who has lapsed into an intermittent coma. As he dies, his son returns home to visit the family, where he unexpectedly participates in an ancient ritual of ancestral origins.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 1993

Original language

English

Production

ParaTheatrical ReSearch

Cast

Camille Hildebrandt,Art Janette,Joel Gilman,Amanda Shaw,Kathryn Rice,Marzee Crum

Director

Antero Alli

Writer

Antero Alli,Camille Hildebrandt,Pablo Neruda

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

Homepage

Official site

IMDb

tt0107753