ON FALLING

2024 / Short film & Multi-channel video installation / 16:08

On Falling is a meditative and oneiric re-exploration of the myth of Sisyphus that follows Z perpetually falling through a dark void. As we follow their fall, we float, drift in and out of dreamlike thoughts, meeting a child that incubates dreams, the moon and a witness to death and rebirth.

The film resonates with Luxem’s previous works in its exploration of dream worlds and dream structures, the re-enactment of deep existential anxiety and the processing of violence, as they seek to re-imagine ways of being queer in the world. On Falling is a quest for mastering the loss of control, a search for lucidity and letting go in order to survive violence and pain.

Funded by Arts Council England & Other People's Films.

Starring
Adam Hoya as Z
Aaron Hannah Shakespeare as Moon
Jo Chao as Child
Antonia Luxem as Friend and Voice

Writer and Director - Antonia Luxem
Producer - May Ziadé
Director of Photography - Jackie Teboul
Costume Design - Simon Schmidt
Hair & Makeup - Tina Khatri
Production Design - Claudia Fragoso
Edit - Antonia Luxem

Colour Grade - CHEAT
Music by - Tom Foskett-Barnes & Josephine Stephenson
Sound Design - Felix Waverley-Hudson