A young woman follows a path and unknowingly invites a demonic figure into her life. An experimental vampire film with haptic visuals, minimal dialogue, and characters defenseless against their drives.

"Marjorie Conrad’s grimly sensual mood piece—one of the finest experimental features I saw last year—gets a condensed, yet even more daring version which emphasizes the film’s ‘tactility’. And when I say ‘tactility’, I don’t refer to it only in its literal sense, but also as in ‘a half-remembered dream that gently touches your psyche before veiling it in uncanny ethereality’..."

- Nikola Gocić on the Final Cut

"Fear and desire become opaque and obscure One in Marjorie Conrad's uncompromising sophomore feature—a deliberately paced, relentlessly elliptical and formally adventurous de(con)struction of the vampire subgenre. Almost completely wordless and featuring a minimal cast of three (Amy Deanna, Otto von Schirach, and Andrew Banewicz, more ciphers than characters), this cryptic experimental horror plays out like a densely atmospheric tone poem which will certainly provoke extremely polarizing reactions. So, I am speaking for myself when I say that its peculiar blend of heavily brooding drones and oppressively tenebrous visuals slowly but assuredly creeps its way under the viewer's skin and stays there for who knows how long. What I particularly like about it are unforeseen changes in image format, fetishist approach to both soft focus and flickering, as well as the frequent 'leaps into the void' (i.e., black screen intrusions) that intensify its mysteriousness and turn the experience of watching it into an eerie encounter with some alien/demonic entity."

- Nikola Gocić on the Festival Cut

52.1 min (Final), 84.9 min (Festival) · 2021 · English · Digital

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