Septien

  • 79'
  • USA
  • 2011
Eighteen years after his sudden disappearance, the neglected athlete Cornelius Rawlings (played by director Michael Tully himself, with a large tramp’s beard) returns to his parents' farm in the country. His parents are long dead, but his brothers Ezra and Amos and the lethargic hired hand are there.
Ezra has taken over the role of mother in the house while in the barn Amos makes perturbing paintings filled with athletes, their limbs torn off, and satanic symbols. When the plumber comes to clear the toilet, the past also enters the brothers' house. All three have their own demons to fight.
Tully's film is a childish and feverish dream, an unpretentious and humorous art film, a horror film without any splattering blood, a Southern Gothic story, an unusual sports film, an honest look at the way men suppress their feelings. And all that in the nostalgic style of a TV film from the early 1980s.

  • 79'
  • USA
  • 2011
Director
Michael Tully
Premiere
International premiere
Country of production
USA
Year
2011
Festival Edition
IFFR 2011
Length
79'
Medium
HDcam
Language
English
Producers
Brooke Bernard, Ryan Zacarias
Production Company
Nomadic Independence Pictures
Sales
Michael Tully
Screenplay
Michael Tully
Cinematography
Jeremy Saulnier
Editor
Marc Vives
Production Design
Bart Mangrum
Sound Design
Gene Park
Music
Michael Montes
Cast
Robert Longstreet, John Maringouin, Onur Tukel, Michael Tully
Director
Michael Tully
Premiere
International premiere
Country of production
USA
Year
2011
Festival Edition
IFFR 2011
Length
79'
Medium
HDcam
Language
English
Producers
Brooke Bernard, Ryan Zacarias
Production Company
Nomadic Independence Pictures
Sales
Michael Tully
Screenplay
Michael Tully
Cinematography
Jeremy Saulnier
Editor
Marc Vives
Production Design
Bart Mangrum
Sound Design
Gene Park
Music
Michael Montes
Cast
Robert Longstreet, John Maringouin, Onur Tukel, Michael Tully