The Urania Trilogy is a hand-processed 16mm filmic poem infused with metaphor, mood, and Stimmung, where the past overtakes the present and the present overtakes the past. The film flickers with the fateful caprice of tarot cards fingered in a Viennese bordello. It emerges as a corporeal fable and offers cabalistic hygiene for a vital elegance.
Doors 7pm
Tickets £8-12 Sliding Scale (NOTAFLOF)
Following advance screenings in America and Europe, the film has undergone a soundtrack remix, revised edits, and the addition of monochrome tints inspired by early cinematic techniques.
This sui generis, hand-processed 16mm film is digitized and ready for projection in its definitive form.
It is a film made for those hungry to submerge themselves in Orphic mysteries and to embrace narratives of timeless consequence. The Urania Trilogy explores myth, memory, and identity through dreamlike structures - evoking shifting realities where the past overtakes the present, and the present overtakes the past, while already hurling itself into the future.
Now to be seen as one feature movie, this troika of intrigue films is intended for aficionados in search of a cinema of paradox in a pure, yet contaminated form. With music by Fritz Kreisler, Sandor Lakatos, Charlie Feathers, Josef Ivanovici, Mario Monterosso, Marcus Ellis, and with original themes, Master Of Chaos and Red Vienna intoned by lyric soprano, Kallen Esperian.
Synopsis
The avatar of Urania, the muse of the heavens, descends to earth in the guise of a disaffected American girl, Gina Lee. In a shopping mall travel agency, she buys a ticket on impulse. Destination: Vienna, the merry/sinister imperial city on the Danube. Gina Lee quickly slips into dalliances at Cafe Central and at the notorious Hotel Orient, where she becomes embroiled in an intrigue to uncover buried Nazi plunder. Her liaison with rakish Karl Heinz Von Riegl builds to a furtive denouement at the Klimt Villa on the alpine shores of Lake Atter, climaxing on the grand canal of Venice.
Gustavo Antonio "Tav" Falco is an American-born filmmaker, actor, author, and musician. He has directed two feature films, numerous short films, and has played acting roles in motion pictures filmed in both North America and Europe. He is the author of two books, one a psycho-geography of the city of Memphis, and the other a collection of his photography.