Official Trailer for UK Experimental Film Anaphylaxis

Anaphylaxis will be Ayman Mokhtar's directorial debut which is produced by FilmArt productions, and I must say what a debut this is, it's very experimental and being a narrative film it observes shot continuity, content and arrangement for it's story telling. The film is set on a back drop of black and white with vibrant colors against it and it looks beautiful, it definitely has that art house feel about it, so I'm sure it's one of those films where you like it or hate it.

I absolutely love films like this, but it will probably take me a few viewings to fully understand what is going on but I think that is the beauty of it, that it will take a repeat viewing and hopefully make you think.

Anaphylaxis was shot back in 2007 but took two painstaking years in post-production when it finally debuted at last years Sao Paulo International Film festival. Check out the official website for a thorough understanding of the film and for more information.

Synopsis: "A successful doctor, content with life, develops a strange illness – anaphylaxis, a severe allergy to human skin. He tries to defy his illness, but his life is turned upside down by his inability to touch people. He can’t function professionally, socially or intimately with his fiancée, whom he eventually loses.

Then he discovers that dead bodies don’t trigger his illness. He withdraws from life around him to work as a pathologist, dealing only with dead bodies. Life is calm until he encounters a woman’s dead body covered from neck to toe with writing. 

Intrigued, he starts to read.

She was a poet. Imprisoned as a wife and mother, she suffered postnatal depression. Writing was her solace, but she sought escape so much it became a dangerous obsessive compulsive disorder. They locked her in a psychiatric hospital to recover. When released, she was told not to touch a pen again. But she did – to end it all by writing her story on her skin, dying as a result.

Reading her story, the doctor discovers a profound bond between his experiences of solitude and those recounted in her tattooed words. The dead poet becomes the doctor’s only chance for a human connection as he reaches to her across the boundaries of death."

Check out the official trailer below:

Source: QuietEarth