The Mystical Rose (1976)

Release Date: 1976-01-01
Runtime: 1h 5min
Production Company: Experimental Film Fund
Production Country: Australia
Director: Michael Lee

A disturbing cinematic opera from Melbourne film-maker, Michael Lee, presenting an intense emotional collage of film clips, original footage and complex object animation, structured loosely in the form of a Catholic Mass, to communicate the film-maker's traumatic Catholic experience. The film is intended in part as 'anti-imagery' in response to the iconography of Catholicism.