Orpheus Underground

Orpheus Underground

16mm, color, sound, 35.75 min
Orpheus was shot in New York City using backgrounds such as Coney Island and the Lower East Side for the Underworld. Influences include Fellini's Satyricon and Cocteau's Blood of a Poet, Jack ...
Rental format: 16mm

Stills

About

Orpheus was shot in New York City using backgrounds such as Coney Island and the Lower East Side for the Underworld. Influences include Fellini's Satyricon and Cocteau's Blood of a Poet, Jack Smith and a residue of the political climate of the late '60s and early '70s. "Silvianna Goldsmith's beautiful and romantic ORPHEUS UNDERGROUND ... depicts rape from a woman's angle of vision ... renders female orgasm as a bursting forth of pomegranate seeds. ..." – Maryse Holder, Changes and Off Our Backs "Silvianna's film ORPHEUS reconciles the surrealist visionary quest of a Bunuel with the cinematic optique of a Cocteau in her rendition of the artist's interior voyage to the unconscious .... Sylvianna ... constantly addresses the inner eye of the viewer by transforming that reality through the visionary process of the symbolic imagination. Silvianna's 'trip' is a Jungian rite of passage." – Gloria Orenstein

Films

  • Other films by this artist in our catalogue

  • Read More
    Mexico

    Mexico
    Silvianna Goldsmith

    11 min
    Rental format: 16mm
  • Read More
    The Transformation of Persephone
    Experimental

    The Transformation of Persephone
    Silvianna Goldsmith

    16mm, color, sound, 10.75 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Erotic
  • Read More
    Lil Picard, Art Is a Party
    Experimental

    Lil Picard, Art Is a Party
    Silvianna Goldsmith

    16mm, color, sound, 13.5 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Comedy
  • Read More
    Nightclub, Memories of Havana in Queens
    Experimental

    Nightclub, Memories of Havana in Queens
    Silvianna Goldsmith

    16mm, color and b/w, sound, 5.5 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Dance
    • Comedy
  • Read More
    Lil Picard
    Experimental

    Lil Picard
    Silvianna Goldsmith

    16mm, color, sound, 27.75 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • History
    • Arts / Artists
    • Dance
  • Read More
    Oneiro: In the Shadow of Idadora
    Experimental

    Oneiro: In the Shadow of Idadora
    Silvianna Goldsmith

    video, color, sound, 14 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Dance
    • Literarature / Theater
  • Read More
    Hearts, Chains And Flowers
    Experimental

    Hearts, Chains And Flowers
    Silvianna Goldsmith

    16mm, color, sound, 8 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Erotic
    • Found Footage