User:Mccainre/God Wears My Underwear

Synopsis
This film ties the Jewish Holocaust in the 1940’s to the genocide in Tibet in the 1950’s. It raises issues of sexual identity, reincarnation, human and moral responsibility, universal experiences of the 20th century.

Our lead character, Lavinia has been haunted all of her life by dreams about people and places she has never experienced. As she stands waiting for a train, she sees her childhood and ponders her confusion about her own sexuality.

Lavinia reviews her years in psychoanalysis. Under hypnosis, she recalls a past life as a Tibetan Buddhist monk, visiting Berlin in the 1930’s. The monk, Brother Eo, did nothing to help friends and colleagues as the brutality of the Nazis began to unfold. Realizing his mistake, he returned to Tibet only to be among those massacred a few years later by the invading Chinese Communists. But death did not cleanse guilt. Instead he reincarnates as Lavinia and it continues into another lifetime.

Reviews
The story of a Tibetan Monk, The Holocaust, and past lives Afterword - Summer 2006 by Aaron Blair

God Wears My Underwear - by Leslie Streit Digital Cinema Report - November 2, 2006 by Nick Dager

Minneapolis Fim Festival: cinema esoterica in upper Mid-West  FilmFestivals.com - May 2, 2006 by Alex Deleon

Quotes
Brilliant Agnes Varda

Four Stars - Colin Covert (Critic, Minneapolis Star Tribune)

Haunting - Evocative - a virtual mind trip Art & Performance - Fall 2005

Screenings

 * Canada	16 October 2005	(DNA Film Festival) Best Short Film
 * Italy	22 October 2005	(Festival Internazionale Cinema e Donne)
 * USA	12 November 2005	(New York International Independent Film and Video Festival)
 * USA	21 April 2006	(Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival)
 * India	11 February 2007	(International Festival of Short Films on Culture)
 * USA	5 August 2007	(Wine Country Film Festival)

Technology

 * This was one of the first low budget indie films to be shot on a digital video format (MiniDV) with one of the first MiniDV camcorders (Canon XL1) commercially available.
 * Video format was NTSC rec 709 with a resolution of 720x480.
 * Editing was done on both a DPS Velocity NLE system and an Avid Express DV system
 * Digital Visual Effects used Digital Fusion software
 * The most time consuming effect was removing hair from the Tibetan monk - the actor refused to shave his head!

External Sites
IMDB Official Site

Mccainre (talk) 02:28, 11 April 2018 (UTC)