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Ethereal Chrysalis Australian premiere
in the Lovecraft Actually program of A Night of Horror Film Festival in Sydney

Posted March 23rd 2012

The fantastic short film Ethereal Chrysalis will be presented for the first time in Australia as part of the Lovecraft Actually program of A Night of Horror Film Festival in Sydney.

Lovecraft Actually Shorts Film Program
Sun March 25th 3PM.
Dendy Cinema Newtown
Sydney, Australia

Winner of the best short film at Minneapolis Underground Film Festival and at the Quebec's Vitesse Lumière Festival, Ethereal Chrysalis was also screened at Fantasia, Toronto After Dark, Rojo Sangre and the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland Oregon, USA where it got a tremendous positive response.

In Montreal in 2010, Ethereal Chrysalis director Syl Disjonk assisted to a master class on adapting Lovecraft for the screen delivered by Stuart Gordon in collaboration with Fantasia Film Festival and the Blueshine psychotronic film center.

Ethereal Chrysalis was also presented before the H.P. Lovecraft inspired From Beyond directed by Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, Fortress, Dagon) as part of the Séances Hallucinées of the ZoneBis association in Lyon, France.

There is definitely an etheric link that unites HP Lovecraft and Syl Disjonk througt the gateway to the afterlife !

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Lovecraft Actually : Ethereal Chrysalis
Ethereal Chrysalis fantastic short film screening in the Lovecraft Actually program

The Sleeping Giant - Ethereal Chrysalis - Fantastic short film directed be Syl Disjonk
The Sleeping Giant in the Lovecraftian short film Ethereal Chrysalis directed by Syl Disjonk
Photo: Martin McKay, sleeping giant makeup Jean Pronovost and Rémy Couture, costume Marie-Christine Gagnon.

Syl Disjonk lovecraftian bio:

Syl Disjonk lives in an hypercube in the Montreal Interzone. He owns a Certification of Insanity from Arkham Asylum for his sleep terror disorder. He has been attacked by dark ones in his dreams since his childhood. He still goes through an art therapy to keep his mind in place.

He has made much progress in recent years and now manage to survive by using his skills in the field of graphic design and visual effects. Many of his personal artworks recall the universe of H.P. Lovecraft. 

His latest short film Ethereal Chrysalis is based on his nightmares and his memories of the future.

Ethereal Chrysalis : Surrealist Landscape - H.P. Lovecraft Actually short film progam A Night of Horror - Sydney

 

Lovecraftian artworks by Syl Disjonk:

H.P. Lovecraft ancien skull - Necronomicon H.P. Lovecraft horror Lovecraftian mutant creature
City from beyond
H.P. Lovecraft nightmare H.P. Lovecraft worm monster creature

Ethereal Chrysalis - Fantastic short film - Trailer from Syl Disjonk on Vimeo.

 

Ethereal Chrysalis main credits:

Written and directed by Syl Disjonk
Assistant director : Carnior
Produced by Syl Disjonk & Igor Simonnet
Director of photography : Martin McKay
Original music : Martin Gauthier
Sound Designer: Keith McMullen
Art direction by : Véronique Poirier

Cast
Syl Disjonk:  Traveller, sleeping giant, schizophrenic & mutant
Raynald Lapierre: Psychic alchemist

Special effects by Éric Thievierge, Rémy Couture and Jean Pronovost

Visual effects (matte painting and compositing) by Syl Disjonk and Éric Bilodeau

 

Notes:

Synopsis for Ethereal Chrysalis written by the Festival de cinema de la ville de Québec:
A surreal and philosophical tale or just a nightmare of the director?
The Dali style image take us into a fantasy world where death and reincarnation are the subjects.

 

Ethereal Chrysalis official world premiere was held on Aug. 6th 2011
at Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, QC, Canada.

 

A work in progress of Ethereal Chrysalis was screened on June 3rd 2011 at Vitesse Lumière Festival in Quebec City.
The reaction was so positive that we won the prize for the best film ex aequo. See article...

 

In 2006 Syl Disjonk won the audience award and a special jury prize at the Festival Vitesse Lumière in Quebec for his post-apocalyptic short film Zordax II: The Metal War.