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Go Down Death
2013
Synopsis
In a cross-episodic melange of macabre folktales penned by the fictitious writer Jonathan Mallory Sinus, an abandoned factory in Brooklyn stands in for a decrepit, haunted village. Soldiers are lost and found in endless woods, while a child gravedigger is menaced by a shapeshifting physician…
Editorial
Dwelling surreally on death and disfigurement, this mesmerizing ensemble piece is tumid with ambiguities, like the eeriest of dreams. Gauzily atmospheric, Aaron Schimberg’s strange vignettes twitch with marionette-like characters, whose singsong eccentricities jerk this coarse-grained world to life.
