Project Detail

The Treasury of Human Inheritance

film still, courtesy of the artist, 2024

Synopsis

A poetic film about the experience of living with and alongside disease and disability. Tracing loops, echoes and repetitions across the physical and spiritual realms, ‘The Treasury’ combines documentation of family home movie footage; somatic and religious rituals for death and life after death; abandoned urban architectures teeming with natural growth; celluloid film hand-processed in genetic material; and an analogue synthesizer soundtrack that mimics inheritance patterns of genetic disease. In essence, this is a film about a family – but, more than that, it is a film made from the everyday patterns we embody in order to live through and with one another.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024

Details

Year: 2024
Type of project: Features
Running time: 60 min
Format: 16mm Black and White, Colour, Digital Video
Director: Alexis Kyle Mitchell 1st Feature
Producer: Mason Leaver-Yap
Editor: Alexis Kyle Mitchell
Director of Photography: Kjerstin Rossi, Duncan Marquiss, Alexis Kyle Mitchell
Sound: Richy Carey
Composer: Richy Carey, Luke Fowler

Genre

Experimental Woman Director

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Alexis Kyle Mitchell

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www.alexismitchell.com

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