Marjorie Ely is a stunning yet unworldly 19-year-old girl possessed by only an abstracted sense of who she is or where she came from. Now alone and living with distant relatives, she imagines that she was born motherless, created through extraordinary, magical means by her mysterious and long-dead father.
She increasingly shuts herself off from the banalities of the world around her, filled with gossiping girlfriends, jobs on automatic pilot and a clumsy budding sexuality. Instead, she surrenders to her night-time reality, in which an attractive yet unusual figure in a black leather jacket lures her back to her imagined origins and her fate.
Otto Buj says he was inspired by the 1960s pop song ‘Hundred Pounds of Clay’ by Gene McDaniels and by Paul Wegener’s horror film Der Golem (1915). The result is an idiosyncratic and alienating love story between a father and daughter.
Film details
- Country of production
- Canada
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 90'
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
