“Dramatic Post-production Transformation”
The stunning images in this post are all stills from a scene we provided additional postproduction for in the debut feature film by esoteric artist and occult indie-filmmaker, Orryelle Defenestrate. We were commissioned to provide a gruesome overhaul with additional colour-grading and our signature editing style, of which Orryelle said, “this scene of the Maenads tearing apart Orpheus from has undergone a dramatic post-production transformation recently in the brilliant hands of Cavan McLaughlin.”
This exciting new work is now available to buy and rent online. Visit https://vimeo.com/ondemand/solveetcoagula
Here is what the producers of the film have to say about it:
An EsotErotic, Surreal and psychedelic journey of re-enchantment, SOLVE et COAGULA is writer-director Orryelle’s first feature-length film.
With a wyrd mix of contemporary subculture and Ancient archetypes its central message of the reintegration of spirit and matter, mind and body is pertinent in our disconnected times…
The ancient Thracian bard Orpheus laments ever for his lost love Eurydice. Having returned from the Underworld in his attempts to retrieve her, he can now no longer die, yet lacks presence. So the maenads tear him limb from limb…
Two thousand years later: An immortal head, disembodied, aware now of the power of the physical form in which it is forever encased. Upon the Templar altar, wise yet carnal, the only way it can now enjoy the idea of a body is through vicarious experience of others enjoying theirs. Thus with the heightened senses remaining in the head, s/he desires to create a new physical vessel…
3 years in the making, a hypnotic blend of live-action and wax stop-animation, sometimes layered with the director’s oil paintings.
Dense with mythic and occult symbolism, it also features a diverse musical soundtrack ranging from neo-classical bardic/operatic to experimental ritual ambient…