85 minutes
2/9/1990
Sara is led by her grandfather through the mise-en-scene of a film being shot in ltaly. The landscape in which they walk is the film's plot, masquerading as a state of mind, Its sub-plot woven in with a selection of Bach's Goldberg Variations. The young girl sights Venus strolling through these landscapes, an ‘agent provocateur’ from the country of myth. A filmmaker, In whose imagination this plot is unraveling, approaches a group of producers to fund his film "Aphrodite". The film begins to shift back and forth between archaic and modern notions of myth, highlighting the distinctions between myth and story and the relationships between history and biography.
Micha Bergese
as The Sane Man
Julia Langley
as Antonin Artaud
Sara Donadoni
as grandchild
Charles Shuts
as grandfather
Gad Hollander
as film-maker
Monty Ray Garrison
as poet
Raffaella Monti
as Venus/Aphrodite
Antonio Celiento
as Adonis
Carla Fioravanti
as Fortune Teller
David L Hirst
as farmer's voice
Ian Hinchliffe
as studio chef
Lol Coxhill
as fat producer
Paul Lawrence Davies
as thin producer
Tony Green
as producer with hat
Gerry Fitzgerald
as second fat producer
Angela Abelini & Baby
as motionless women
Marina Chiarelotto
as motionless women
Marta Donati
as motionless women
Marta & Alice Mottura
as moving children
Ali
as 1st. tractor driver
Palmiero Pisani
as 2nd. tractor driver
Christopher Duke
as bike rider
Graham Gussin
as (god)
Sotheby
as dog
Adi Hollander
as home-movie stars
Gavriel Hollander
as home-movie stars
Noam Hollander
as home-movie stars
Mimi Hollander
as home-movie stars