THIS WAS SHOT IN SAN FRANCISCO IN ONE DAY.
While trying to cure his self-inflicted agoraphobia, out-of-work musician Dullis Overby meets a struggling conceptual artist named Avel Soleil. The pair is seemingly made for one another: two outsiders straining to keep afloat in a turbulent world. But when Avel reveals that she has created the ultimate installation art piece out of Dullis' worst fears, he loses the ability to differentiate reality from hallucination and must fight to retain his sanity.
The short story, “Ligeia,” by Edgar Allan Poe, suggests that not only is life sustainable through the power of one's will, but a strong will could bring someone back from the dead. In both the classic story and in this film, a writer obsesses over the memories of his dead wife and longs to “restore her to the pathway she had abandoned.” Though this adaptation takes place in the modern world – and uses Poe's actual text as narration – this film looks, sounds and feels as though it could have been made long ago.