Shakespeare's ghost meets German punk theater in a 32-minute fever dream you can't unsee.
Hamlet and Ophelia reckon with their doomed narratives against the backdrop of the similarly doomed pre-Wende Germany and 2020s United States. A short-film adaptation of the 1977 East German Heiner Müller play of the same name.
Practical Effects
Hand puppet Horatio steals every scene like a felt-covered Greek chorus.
Production
Analog 4K photography that makes doom look gorgeous.
Costume
Ophelia/Elektra's split identity through deliberate visual fracture.
Director
Annelise Lipowitz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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