Text Messages from the Universe

Oct 21, 2019

1h 2m

★ 6.0

Overview

A film that immerses its audience in subjective states of consciousness they might experience when they die, imagining what they can see and think and hear in a seamless but fragmentary flow of poetic images, words and music. The viewer undertakes a journey into their own interior world of dreams and projections in which time and space, and cause and effect logic, are turned on their heads. Text Messages from the Universe is inspired by The Tibetan Book of the Dead, a text which guides souls on their journey of 49 days through the 'Bardo', or intermediate state, between dying and rebirth.

Genres

Music

Documentary

Fantasy

Production Companies

The Physical TV Company

Text Messages from the Universe Trailers

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Cast

Dancer

Richard James Allen

Dancer

Jay Bailey

Dancer

Lily Bones

Dancer

Andrea Briody

Dancer

Sonia Camara

Dancer

Bonnie Curtis

Dancer

Emma Dulvey

Dancer

Ryuichi Fujimura

Dancer

Jane Bones Gonscak

Dancer

Brayden Harry

Dancer

Stephanie King

Dancer

Dimitri Kleioris

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