DEFILE IN VEIL

SYNOPSIS

Using the venerable flickering image of cinema’s past, Dawson has created his latest surrealist film, a beautifully poetic experience in which a young, virginal, woman is confronted with a multitude of metaphoric atrocious of our vaguely familiar, unkind and disparate world.

Defile in Veil
Defile in Veil

Defile in Veil2003

Written and Directed byDeco Dawson
FeaturingDeborah Axelrod
Music byPatric Caird
Running Time9 min
Format4x3 1.33
Original Production Format16mm
Exhibition Formats4K, HD, DCP and PRORES

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NOTES:

Original production for Defile in Veil began in the fall of 1998. The film was shot one day a year for five years in three different locations, until completed in late 2003. As A film that spanned Dawson’s early career, it is fitting that Defile in Veil closes out Dawson’s early interest in silent cinema, and the portion of his filmmography best described as “Early Work.”

The Film features the amazingly talented Contemporary Dance Artist Deborah Axelrod in the lead role.