Text Messages from the Universe

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2019 / 62min.

Rating6

Genres

Music

Documentary

Fantasy

Synopsis

A film that immerses its audience in subjective states of consciousness they might experience when they die, imagining what they can see and think and hear in a seamless but fragmentary flow of poetic images, words and music. The viewer undertakes a journey into their own interior world of dreams and projections in which time and space, and cause and effect logic, are turned on their heads. Text Messages from the Universe is inspired by The Tibetan Book of the Dead, a text which guides souls on their journey of 49 days through the 'Bardo', or intermediate state, between dying and rebirth.

Directors

Richard James Allen

Actors

Richard James Allen

Jay Bailey

Lily Bones

Andrea Briody

Sonia Camara

Bonnie Curtis

Emma Dulvey

Ryuichi Fujimura

Jane Bones Gonscak

Brayden Harry

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