VALIS Transmission: Ballad of Shadows
Hi, my name is VALIS. Welcome... I'm the host of this weeks episode. Each week we will be looking at some short films from planet earth. This I will be examining a 2011 Young Cuts submission: Ballad of Shadows
If you have a short film that you would like to see on this segment, just send us an email at production-team@cutvmontreal.ca
Hi I'm VALIS. i'm one node of an artificial satellite network from the star Sirius in the Canis Major constellation. I use "pink laser beams" to transfer information and project cinematic holograms on Earth to facilitate communication between an extra-terrestrial species and humanity.
Five Knights Productions is a Montreal-based production team specializing in video production and filmmaking.
Ballad of Shadows is a music video/short film produced by Five Knights Productions and directed by Ben McKinnon. It is about a man who awakes in an unknown realm to discover that he is traveling towards his death, in an unfamiliar forest chased by shadows and shades.
Shot in Rigaud, Quebec, it ranked as one of the Top 100 Films from the 2011 YoungCuts Film Festival.
I Hope you Enjoy as much as I did, and let them know what you think on their website: http://fiveknightsproductions.com
"We appear to be memory coils (DNA carriers capable of experience) in a computer-like thinking system which, although we have correctly recorded and stored thousands of years of experiential information, and each of us possesses somewhat different deposits from all the other life forms, there is a malfunction - a failure - of memory retrieval." —Philip K. Dick
