MARK CIRA

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LYSIS

The result of three years of experimentation, “Lysis” cycles through five different film stocks and a variety of processing methods. A hybrid of optical effects, post-processing analog techniques and digital effects achieves a mosaic of painterly impressions. “Lysis” revolves around themes of the porosity of the self in relation to memory, place and time. One part visual landscape of the soul as it yearns for the past and its place within it, set against the textural disembodiment of nostalgia in post-capitalist urban decay.

Directed by Mark Cira

Starring

Joshua Obra

Alia O’Brien

Mila Sadic

Leo Ashton

Howard LeVant

Asil Moussa

Cinematography by Adam Stewart and Mark Cira

Original Music by Alia O’Brien