

The Mystical Rose
1976-01-01 · 65 min · ★ 6.5
A disturbing cinematic opera from Melbourne film-maker, Michael Lee, presenting an intense emotional collage of film clips, original footage and complex object animation, structured loosely in the form of a Catholic Mass, to communicate the film-maker's traumatic Catholic experience. The film is intended in part as 'anti-imagery' in response to the iconography of Catholicism.
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- Michael Lee
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- Experimental Film Fund
- Countries
- Australia
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- Released
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