About this project
This film is 85% completed and needs these remaining funds to see us through to fruition. We have three spectacular set pieces yet to shoot and intricate post production ahead. Watch the video above through to the end to get a glance of a few production design sketches for the remaining pick ups.
THE EXQUISITE TENDERNESS OF SANTA ROSA DE LIMA
This ambitious labor of love from a remarkably talented team of film professionals is a highly stylized art film about the true-life experience of Santa Rosa, the first Saint of the Americas. Known as "The Rose of Lima," this incredibly interesting woman was born in 16th-century Peru, and was blessed/cursed with ecstatic Biblical visions from an early age.
Exploring her magical world from her point of view, this film is a visually hypnotic rollercoaster of darkness and light - both in its imagery and emotional anatomy - depicting the documented extreme nature of her life for the first time in cinematic history.
ABOUT THE FILM:
Rosa spent the majority of her life in solitude, praying and practicing extreme self-mortification out of her devotion to Christ - who was very much a living lover in her perception. This picture aspires to examine neither her psychology nor the mythology surrounding her, but rather the core metaphysical commitment of Love and its duality to a less defined and deeper concept of "God." The film thereby examines the astounding details of Rosa's life in relation to the broader psychedelic experience of mystics throughout history.
Falling into the unique cinematic genre as works from such conceptual filmmakers as Alejandro Jodorowsky, Luis Bunuel, Fritz Lang, Maya Deren, Peter Greenaway, Carl Theodore Dreyer, Ken Russell and more recently Matthew Barney, this piece is bound for esteemed museums, galleries, fine art and top film festivals around the world.
ABOUT THE CREW:
Written and Directed by internationally recognized art filmmaker Burke Roberts
who was honored last year with a retrospective of his short films presented by LACMA (Los Angeles County Mueum of Art). Recently referred to in Film Threat Magazine as "Underground Film Messiah" (see links below) - Roberts is approaching this abstract love story in the sprit of a Fantasy/Sci-Fi journey between dimensions. Along with rising star cinematographer Ian Takahashi and visionary production designer Geoff Flint, this cinematic interpretation is resulting in surrealist depictions of her strange visions, miracles and masochistic practices that are nothing less than epic.
The film is produced by Brooklyn Reptyle Films, indie film vets Christo Dimassis and Roger M. Mayer, who are champions of challenging and progressive material. Some of their films include Sundance selections: THE OREGONIAN, BIG RIVER MAN, ANOTHER HAPPY DAY and many other award-winning films including BOPPIN' AT THE GLUE FACTORY, OIL CHANGE and AUDIE AND THE WOLF. Combined, they have produced over 40 film projects and have contributed to countless others.
This set design-heavy production is art directed by Jason "Hawke" Hamilton who, along with Flint, assembled some of the finest craftsmen in the field of production and set design to fabricate the elaborate set pieces.
Starring Norma Maldonado, Rodleen Getsic, Jakob Bokulich, Maile Martinez as Little Rosa. And introducing Heather Grey as Santa Rosa.
Please support the evolution of fine art cinema and the Exquisite Tenderness of Santa Rosa de Lima.
LINKS:
http://ExquisiteTenderness.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Exquisite-Tenderness-of-Santa-Rosa-de-Lima/235264316535924
Recent press on the director:
http://www.filmthreat.com/interviews/38715/
http://www.ifc.com/news/2011/05/premiere-spindrift-the-legend.php
Cinematographer Ian Takahashi:
Brooklyn Reptyle Films:
http://www.imdb.com/company/co0106434/
Christo Dimassis:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1359370/
Roger M. Mayer:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1276606/
Thomai Hatsios:
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Christo Dimassis and Roger M. Mayer are co-owners and producers of Brooklyn Reptyle Films. They produced two features that played at the Sundance Film Festival, the 2011 avant-garde horror film The Oregonian by Calvin Lee Reeder and the 2009 award-winning documentary for Best Cinematography, Big River Man, directed by John Maringouin. They also produced the award-winning feature comedies Audie and the Wolf, directed by B. Scott O’Malley and Boppin’ at the Glue Factory, directed by Jeff Orgill, and the punk rock cult film from famed artist Bad Otis Link, The Sugar on Top. There are several recently finished films about to be released including Brian McGuire’s Carlos Spills the Beans, David Donihue’s The Bang Bang Brokers, Kate Cohen’s Grooming Giselle, and Gregory Hatanaka’s Darling Nikki. They also produced a number of notable shorts including Todd Luoto’s Oil Change, Roberta Marie Munroe’s Dani and Alice, Thomai Hatsios’s Gasp, Eric Kurland’s Elevation (3-D), Morgan Kellum’s Personality Crisis and the structuralist personal art piece Removal by Mr. Paul Marchand, where Roger has his tooth pulled with a pair of pliers by Christo. They also produced a pair of shorts commissioned by the United Nations, both directed by Roberta Marie Munroe. They are currently producing Calvin Lee Reeder’s follow-up to The Oregonian and the epic art piece by arthouse wunderkind Burke Roberts called The Exquisite Tenderness of Santa Rosa de Lima.
