Project Detail

The Treasury of Human Inheritance

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

Production Status

Production Company

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