Ennui (film)

Ennui is a 2003 micro-budget, underground film written and directed by Charles Doran, and winner of the 2005 Boston Underground Film Festival Bacchus Award.

More information (from the DVD box):
"Constantly misappropriating Euripides and Foucault, a deadpan, young, unhappily white, female artistic "rebel" known [ironically(?)] only as "the victim" wields camera and eyeglasses to navigate through a chiaroscuro daylight demimonde of an empty Silverlake's mid-1990s post-punk nostalgia. A horrific and comedic pastiche of the pretensions of the art school crowd, white guilt, and the "posthuman condition," Ennui depicts a sort of feminist "restoral of agency" gone dreadfully, cannibalistically awry."Running time: 14:10

The Super-8 film (digitally transferred) starred a female Los Angeles librarian who had never acted before and utilized a disturbing musical score created for the film by Eckankore (see links). It was based in part on conversations overheard by the director's wife's former art school classmates over a period of two years.

External links

[http://www.charlesdoran.com/ennui.php Ennui film information and past screenings]
[http://www.myspace.com/eckankore Link to Eckankore's Myspace page]