Directed by Gary J Byrnes, this 2013 short comes in at 8:30 and is a very stylised piece that chooses imagery over direct narrative – though the film does have a story to tell across its short length.
Set in modern-day Dublin, the film follows a writer (Philip English) of vampire stories, who for 100-years has written but been rejected. It becomes apparent that this was not always the case and he was once a successful writer who gave the world… Dracula. We also see him discovered and hunted, whilst getting a new identity through the bank (the implication, of course, that the bank fronts vampires is one that fits the idea of the vampire as capitalism).
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The film leans heavily into the imagery, as I mentioned, but also the soundtrack that dominates the frames. True, Philip English looks nothing like Bram Stoker but I think we can forgive the filmmakers that conceit as this is definitely a love letter, placing Stoker at the heart of the genre his novel dominates.
At the time of writing, I could not find an IMDb page.
2 comments:
A thoughtful evocative story which edges around Bram Stoker. The music adds to the drama, and it conveys the hopelessness of getting recognized in modern times. I didn't really get the capitalism aspect, but there were flashes of blood but really left to the imagination. It worked as a short film to whet the appetite for more.
cheers for the comment, always appreciated - to me it felt like a capitalism simile was being brought in by using the bank and that ties into the gist of what Voltaire had to say about vampires, and the use of them as a metaphor in Marx
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