The Anna Cabrini Chronicles
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| The Anna Cabrini Chronicles | |
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 "...like comparing Apocalypse Now to Bambi." -Graham Hayworth (SC Sentinel) |
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| Directed by | Tawd b. Dorenfeld |
| Written by | Tawd b. Dorenfeld |
| Starring | Leigh Hope Phillips Michael Childers Bryan Trujillo Samantha Deane |
| Release date(s) | 2005 (USA) |
| Running time | 148 min |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
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The Anna Cabrini Chronicles - On a scale of grandiose proportions director Tawd b. Dorenfeld brilliantly weaves together live-action footage with original animation and effects to voice the inner chaos of four characters, three of whom brutally kill themselves. Taking more than six years to complete and shot in 16mm, Super 8, and DV to create visual texture, it officially premiered on the big screen at the Castro Theater in San Francisco on November 2, 2006. Written, directed, and animated by Tawd b. Dorenfeld, the live-action and animated film cuts unforgivingly into a psychological void with severe and unrelenting portrayals of each suicide. Brooke Caldner (played by Samantha Deane) battles with theological dichotomies and body image. Unable to accept his homosexuality, Jonathan, (as played by Michael Childers), succumbs to a fragmentation of his sexual desires and ultimately of his person. Twelve year old Venice Beach skater Merrick (as played by Bryan Trujillo), decides the only escape from his hopeless family life is to end his own. The film’s narrator, Anna Cabrini (played by Leigh Hope Phillips) lives on, but never ceases to grapple with her childhood trauma and the loss of her subjects whose lives she recorded on microcassette. The film’s soundtrack was composed by musical visionary Trey Spruance (Mr. Bungle, Faith No More, Secret Chiefs 3), and is Spruance’s first feature-length film score.
