Currently on the festival circuit.
A queer narrative art film based on the historical figure Elagabalus – emperor of Rome.
The story is told through a chorus of eccentric drag performers, tableaux vivants, and a musical number. The film culminates in a recreation of The Roses of Heliogabalus (1888) by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, in which a decadent feast is ended with death by suffocation from a cavalcade of rose petals.
Story | Xanthe Dobbie & Samuel Herriman |
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Writer | Samuel Herriman |
Director & Editor | Xanthe Dobbie |
Producer | Alexis Talbot-Smith |
Production Designers | Lily Bennett & Max Boutwell Draper |
Cinematographer | Sidat de Silva |
Composer | Jorde Heys |