THE OPEN HEAD
Ilse Bischoff’s hallucinatory quasi-documentary, notionally about the Greco-Turkish War of the previous decade.
I’m Reading…
A hammer-armed Turk and a sword-armed Greek pursue each other through the Pindus, setting traps for each other, robbing peasants, chalking insulting graffiti on walls. The tone is notionally anti-war, but any scholar of the invisible arts would recognise the Edge-hour subtext… and the Hyksos messages in the graffiti.
I’ve Read…
The sword-wielder methodically fills a church with candles; lights each one; strips, again, to the waist to reveal his terrible scars; his chest somehow swings open like a cupboard door to reveal a blood-drenched book… and the film ends. **Effect: **Memory: Revelation **Mastery: **Lesson: Disciplines of the Scar
Aspects
- Mystery: Edge 8
- Written in Hyksos
- Subject: Disciplines of the Scar
- ReelofFilm
- Readable
- Thing
- Unmade Cathedral