Reddening |
by Sinem Kayacan, Elina Pirinen
Finland, 2025, 00:15:00
Sinem Kayacan | Director, Screenplay
Elina Pirinen | Performance Director, Screenplay
Zodiak Visions | Producer
“Four good friends travel through time and space for an alchemical and sensuous celebration full of phantasms. Familiar yet unexpected faces appear along the way.”
REDDENING is a genre-bender arthouse fantasy film, at the intersection of contemporary performance and experimental fiction.
The title REDDENING refers to the final stage of alchemy; Rubedo, in which the alchemical transformation takes place.
Historically, the practice of alchemy aimed turning base metals into silver and gold, but further, to reach Magnum Opus; divine illumination, heavenly bliss and the elixir of life.
Different disciplines considered the alchemical transformation to take place in the stratum relevant to them; materia, psyche, spirit. Nonetheless, for the transformation to occur, alchemists had to go through a transmutation themselves.
REDDENING explores how a film, as a sensuous object, can pleasure; repulse, nurture, and overall transmute the body of the audience.