Project Description

Reminiscent of Jungian psychologist Clarissa Pinkola Estes’ sacred work “Women Who Run With the Wolves”, this film is meant to reintegrate the mysticism of the feminine into our contemporary stories by weaving together monumental mythology of our Western world (the Greek Orpheus and Eurydice, the Judeo-Christian Adam and Eve, and the American Western) and Illuminating the beauty and power we have been missing for too long.

We open as the sun is beginning to set, a horse crossing a river, past crosses for graves. In a rural setting, timeless in its simplicity, we find a woman washing dishes. Her husband comes back early from breaking horses, just in time for a stranger to show up, looking for a horse that bolted. Though the stranger says he will keep searching, the husband invites him to dinner.

The stranger is asked about his name. And the husband learning that his name comes from the Greek myth Orpheus and Eurydice, a book his wife has recently been reading, demands the stranger recount the tragic love story to them all. Through the recounting of this story, we try to piece together what is really going on under this seemingly innocent encounter.

Written by Darby Gaelle Hannon

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