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| HCE | ||
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"We are prepared to go to the gates of hell...but no further." |
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| Synopsis | ||
| It is night. It is dark. Out from this night emerges the voice of a six-year-old girl who becomes our guide through the hours of darkness as we dream of western history. She leads us through the tumultuous centuries from Napoleon to Jesus, Socrates to Superman. As we descend deeper into the dream we bounce around wildly from images and stories of love, war, pain, joy, resistance, and quest. The film has the appearance of being conceived in the nineteenth century and born in the twenty-first, as if constructed by some modern digital zoetrope. “HCE” is a tragicomedy where mythology, history, literature, and comic books all collapse into dream logic as a testament to our human endeavor. | ||
| Cast & Voices |
| Sonje Sylvarnes
Michael Biancucci John Torreano Tim Donovan Jr Erich Hobbing Eric Jacobson Natalie Sylvarnes John Spencer Pamela Stewart Kelly Taber Dirk Rowntree Scott Sylvarnes Richard Sylvarnes Nancy Driscoll Nancy Lorenz Pietro Russino Amy Koshbin MMJ Chorus |
Patricia Sullivan
Martin Potts Ellen Sylvarnes Jacques Dehornois Rufus Fowler Judy Devine Tim O'meara Lisa Walter David Neumann David Troupe Jean Foos John Anderson Steve Frankel Susan Brennan The Club Kid Murray Butler Sue Dennis Susan Sultan |
Ben Prays
Annie Sprinkle DJ Mendel Jesse Gerstein Susan Nevins Lars Sylvarnes Seth Rothberg Justin Kawashima Laurel Johnson Adam Brightman William Hay Elizabeth Diederich Dexter Samuels Brendan Maloney Matt Myers Miho Nikaido Katy Lewis Thomas Jay Ryan |