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Los Angeles Premiere of Cinemavault\'s DARK BLOOD!
Oct 22, 2013
Dark Blood tells the story of Boy
( River Phoenix ) a young widower who retreats to the desert after his wife
dies of radiation following nuclear tests near their home. Boy is waiting for
the end of the world and carves Katchina dolls that supposedly contain magical
powers. Harry (Jonathan Pryce) and Buffy (Judy Davis) travel to the desert on a
second honeymoon in an attempt to save their marriage. Their Bentley breaks
down in the middle of nowhere and the couple is rescued by Boy. Boy holds them
prisoner because of his desire for the woman and his ambition to create a
better world with her.
ABOUT THE FILM
Dark Blood was filmed in Utah and
ended ten days before the end of shooting due to the sudden and unfortunate
death of River Phoenix. In 1999 Sluizer found out that the insurance company
wanted to destroy the footage and decided to save the material. He got the unedited
footage out of the storage and shipped it to the Netherlands. When George
Sluizer after an acute aortic dissection faced death himself in 2008 he decided
to edit the “unfinished” long feature DARK BLOOD.
“It was a kind of urgency. The
director Michelangelo Antonioni once said : If I can’t film I prefer to die . I
can find myself in these words. You are a craftsman and you want to complete
your work. I am a perfectionist , I wanted to finish DARK BLOOD and I also
wanted to preserve the cast and crew’s creative work.
With a contribution of the
Netherlands Film Fund, private funding . investments of Sluizer Films and
donations via Cinecrowd, the editing and post-production started in January
2012. After investigating various options how to fill in the missing scenes
George Sluizer chose a simple and effective solution. He narrates the missing
story parts with his own voice-ocer. “It’s a complete film, George Sluizer
says, it has a beginning and it goes to the end , like it should.”
DARK BLOOD had its Premiere with a
guest audience in September 2012
at the Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht. After the screening there was
a standing
ovation. George Sluizer mentioned the absence of
the Phoenix family and quoted from a letter of the mother of River Phoenix who wished
the director all the best for the film.
www.darkbloodthemovie.com
WHERE: AERO THEATER
1328 Montana Ave
Santa Monica, CA
WHEN: OCTOBER 29, 2013 7:30PM
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