The Three Trials
Adventures in Psychotica
Written and Directed by
Randy Greif
100 min.
The Three Trials premieres at the Lausanne
Undergound Film Festival! Click here for
pics and info.
Starring
Molinee Green,
Maximilien Herholz,
Michael Q. Schmidt, Osa Wallander,
Sirena Scott, Budman Luv, Thomas Crnkovich, Valentine Snow, Peter
Choyce, Sasha Peralto
Catherine, a nun with a unique form of narcolepsy, attempts to lose
herself in the worlds of religion, adolescent fantasy, and finally
masochistic devotion to a man. Her husband accommodates her masochism
with increasingly extreme and bizarre rituals. With an experimental and
ground-breaking format, The Three Trials incorporates surreal narrative,
music video, and abstract imagery. The viewer is left to interpret what
is real, what is dream, and what is false narrative in this feverish,
pitch-black comedy with a smorgasbord of sexual fetishes.
Some unlikely characters include:
Catherine
a nun whose narcolepsy kicks in during sexual arousal. She attempts to
achieve utter devotion, but becomes a horribly scarred suburban
housewife and part-time dining table.
Beast
a yeti-like creature who helps Catherine escape a violent death,
becoming her lover. Beast evolves into a plastic surgeon and a very
accommodating husband to Catherine’s masochistic desires.
Father
a 300-pound priest whose devotion requires the willing-to-oblige Rachel,
a Mother Superior dominatrix. Father returns as a horned creature
sprouting orange branches from a place of little sunshine.
The Right Hand Of God
a powerful force in the church who resides in a monstrous boiler room.
Sinister maybe, but Catherine’s guide. He keeps showing up.
The Fixer
a frightening thug who transports Catherine to her confession, and his
partner, The Creepy Man-- a very disturbed person with a bad case
of giggles.
Julia
a young woman who has never left her storybook castle. She saves
Catherine from Blackheart, the castle‘s keeper, by disguising Catherine
as a fox.
Aesthetic Meat Front
a group of people who skewer themselves with meat hooks and perform a
bloody ritual in the film‘s climax.
The soundtrack features musical artists from the post-industrial,
ambient and uncategorizable music world including:
Nurse With Wound
SPK
Rapoon
Controlled Bleeding
Lustmord
Illusion Of Safety
Muslimgauze
Shadowbug 4
Skin Chamber
Nocturnal Emissions
Colorblind James Experience
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