The Cat, the Reverend and the Slave ( The Cat, the Reverend & the Slave )

The Cat, the Reverend and the Slave (DVD) (*)

$29.99

Alternate Title: The Cat, the Reverend & the Slave
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
80 min + 46 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film

Movie filmed in 2009 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Alain Della Negra
Kaori Kinoshita

Written By:
Alain Della Negra
Kaori Kinoshita

Actors:
Alain Della Negra
Kaori Kinoshita

Synopsis:

Right from his first film (Chitra Party, FID 2003), Alain Della Negra had shown a penchant for the true false, the false truth, the power of doubles, the trembling of assignations, the strength and prank of fiction stuck inside the fragile body of documentary verism. Thus it was only natural that he'd found in Second Life an appealing subject. Last year, he and Kaori Kinoshita's film The Den already explored this virtual zone of exchange, but it only focused on a single tribe, the 'Furries', who singularly embraced their animality. Given that this new country is already huge but tends to get even bigger, and since internet users move, communicate, trade, love, manage companies, create clubs, have parties, in a word, turn their lives into a fantasized double, Della Negra and Kinoshita have a lot on their plates. Here, the audience is to meet a few Furries again, only this time in the company of Goreans with strange sexual habits and, for good measure and to complete similarities with our world, a couple of Christian evangelists. Obviously, this fairly quiet circus is interesting in two ways. First, for the unbelievable exuberance obtained by means of the second life enthusiasts' patience, in a place where fantasized misbehaviours become acceptable, visible and available: day-today fantasy. Second, for the convincing similarity with ordinary life: fantasy's daily life. The film investigates the norm's round-trip back to itself, with a crazy twist, while remaining calmly stunned… and so do we.

What does it mean to live in this world, and also live in an alternative virtual world partly of your own creation? Artists know this divided life very well, but for the everyday people, the meaning is something different. Whether they are part of the 'Furries,' or 'Goreians' or fundamentalist Christians, the impulse to be free of life as we know it and plunge into a parallel universe and culture is profound and possibly all-consuming. And as genuine artists, Della Negra and Kinoshita, partners in several audiovisual projects, observe Second Life without judgment but with penetrating eyes and ears.

This films presents a journey into the world of Second Life with it's inhabitants. A poetic meeting between virtual and real.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 02 January, 2012.