Publication: Take One
Publication Date: 01-MAR-05
Format: Online - approximately 951 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Author: Dault, Gary Michael
Article Excerpt
2004 105m prod Producers on Davie Pictures, NFB, exp Rina Fraticelli, p Cari Green, Harry Sutherland, Tracey Friesen, d/sc/ph/ed/s Velcrow Ripper.
Scared/Sacred, by B.C.-based documentary filmmaker Velcrow Ripper, is an alternately stirring and dispiriting film, as jangled and self-cancelling as the filmmaker's name, which feels like a pun about adhesion and tenacity that gives way to and then cancels out the violent deconstructivism of his surname.
A very long film--much longer, experientially speaking, than the 105 minutes it actually runs--Scared/Sacred is not, as the quaintly elided title might lead you to imagine, about being scared sacred--that is to say frightened into the reverential. Rather, it is about finding and touching a sense of the sacred, if it is to be found at all, which may somehow lurk at the very core of the horrendous, the cataclysmic, the unthinkable.
To this end, Ripper, who, raised...
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