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Burning Palace

2009 · 32 min

A dreamlike, unsettling chamber piece that blurs performance and reality, demanding patience as it drifts into strange, destructive territory.

Overview
Five people who are in a show at a bar, who live in this hotel and have very different relationships with one another. After the show – they are already sleeping – they are woken by Pan for the night and therefore wake up to the destruction that is held within them.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • isolation
  • madness
  • art
  • betrayal
Places
  • workplace
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror4
Humour3
Realism4
Romance3
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity7
Emotional weight6

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Details

Directed by
Chris Haring, Mara Mattuschka
Written by
Chris Haring, Mara Mattuschka
Starring
Stephanie Cumming, Luke Baio, Katharina Meves, Alexander Gottfarb, Anna Nowak
Runtime
32 min
Country
Austria
Languages
English

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