Project Detail

Anaphylaxis

Synopsis

A doctor develops a strange illness – anaphylaxis, a severe allergy to human skin. He struggles with his inability to touch people until he discovers that dead bodies don’t trigger his illness. He changes his job to work as a pathologist, dealing only with dead bodies. This is when he encounters a dead poet. Her corpse appears in his autopsy lab, tattooed from neck to toe with writing. Imprisoned as wife and mother, she suffered from postnatal depression. Writing was her only solace, but she sought escape so much it became a dangerous obsessive compulsive disorder. Her psychiatrist forbade her to write. But she did, tattooing her body with her life’s story – and died as a result.

As the doctor reads her tattooed story he discovers a profound bond between his solitude and hers. She becomes his only chance for a human connection and he reaches to her across the boundaries of death with one last act – of love.

Details

Year: 2010
Type of project: Features
Running time: 86 mins
Format: HDCAM
Director: Ayman Mokhtar 1st Feature
Producer: Ayman Mokhtar
Editor: Ayman Mokhtar
Screenwriter: Ayman Mokhtar
Director of Photography: Steven Periovolos
Production Designer: Nicola Dietmann
Sound: Michael Koderisch, Cristina Aragon (5A Studios)
Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich, Ned Washington, Victor Young
Principal cast: Guy Defferary, Katia Winter, Jenna Brook, Frazer Douglas

Genre

Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

FILMART Productions

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London W8 4BU
UK

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