MetamOrphic Ritual Theatre presents...
'In all my years I cannot recall witnessing video as palpably erotic as the long montage of bodies coalescing into one giant body for Orpheus; and the editing for the closing dance is the best job I've seen capturing what must have been a truly visceral experience for those filmed'
-Giles Edwards, 366weirdmovies.com
Book and DVD sample pages, online ordering and uncensored trailer further below...
'Super strong and inspiring AV Magick, the best I have ever experienced. Words, sounds and visuals flow and merge like a soul poetry. It makes one think of Austin Osman Spare... whose power was in integration of pictures and words.'
-Dusan Jakovljevic
Three years in the making, SOLVE et COAGULA is artist-writer-director Orryelle's first feature-length film, an EsotErotic Surreal and psychedelic journey of re-enchantment.
With a weird mix of contemporary subculture and ancient archetypes its central message of the reintegration of spirit and matter, mind and body is pertinent in our disconnected times...
Dense with mythic and occult symbolism, it also features a diverse musical soundtrack ranging from neo-classical bardic/operatic to experimental and ritual ambient
'An often dazzling combination of text, primal music, stylized vocalization, and surreal imagery, Solve et Coagula defies any conventional standards of cinema...'
-366weirdmovies.com
'The overall feeling after watching is electricity, empowerment and inspiration with the final part being a emotional epitaph. This movie it's a genuine cauldron of ideas and magick!'
-Valerio Bertrand
Online streaming ($3.33 rental, $9 purchase -or equivalent in your currency of choice) available from the link at the end of the trailer below.
For ordering of the limited book and DVD (includes streaming code) and sample pages see further below on this page
Solve et Coagula trailer (uncensored version) from Orryelle on Vimeo.
'...deep commitment and thoroughness throughout for creating a world inhabited by entities embodied...'
-Antero Alli, film-maker, author, Paratheatrical Research
A hypnotic blend of live action and wax stop-animation, sometimes layered with the director's oil paintings.
'A complete dramatic arc and a transformation of spirit into flesh. Absolutely mind-blowing' -James Phaily
'I don't know what I'm looking at in relation with all previous movies I've seen, but it's genius ...brilliant tension between serious drama and comical aspects, very well edited'
-David VonHammer, M.A. Cinema Studies
Above & Below: Sample Pages from the 'Solve et Coagula' book
ORDERS are NOW OPEN for the SOLVE et COAGULA Limited Book and DVD/Bluray set
270 copies only
The book is an A4-sized large format high-quality 104-page perfect-bound paperback, featuring the entire libretto of the operatic epic hand-calligraphed, a collection of the most beautiful stills from the film and many additional illustrations in colour and black and white by the artist-director.
It also includes an extensive essay on the occult symbolism of the work and other additional text.
The accompanying disc will also include extra features (extended scenes etc.) not in the online stream.
Blu-ray disc is now an option instead of DVD, for higher-resolution ($4 extra due to higher production costs for smaller quantity).
The limitation of 270 copies is for the total number of Books, regardless of whether DVD or Blu-Ray is selected.
Limited Book (270 signed and numbered copies only) and DVD
($38 -includes streaming code)
Limited Book and Blu-Ray
($42 -includes streaming code):
Above: Sample pages from the 'SOLVE et COAGULA' limited edition book.
The double-page spread above shows the Thracian womb-cave in Bulgaria, and how from inside the entrance appears as a phallus -an echo in stone and sky of how the Baphometic phallus in the film is formed from the body of a woman, in wax then bronze then flesh.
Above & Below:
The Templar Scribe (played by Evan FluX) records the Fate of Orpheus, bridging ACT I and ACT II as he draws the blood of the Land of Ancient Thrace (filmed on location at the Hebris river) into medieval Europe...
The ancient Thracian bard Orpheus laments ever for his lost love Eurydice. Having returned from his journey to the Underworld (above) in his attempts to retrieve her, he can now no longer die, yet lacks presence. So the maenads tear him limb from limb...
Two thousand years later:
An immortal head, disembodied, aware now of the power of the physical form in which it is forever encased.
Upon the Templar altar, wise yet carnal, the only way it can now enjoy the idea of a body is through vicarious experience of others enjoying theirs. Thus with the heightened senses remaining in the head, s/he desires to create a new physical vessel...
'...images drift past the viewer’s eyes in a fever-dream of color, shape, and shadow. Some are startlingly beautiful: the shots of Orpheus slowly picking his way through the flooded caves of Sintra, Portugal, are truly haunting...
Flush with beautiful bodies and lush colors, the film’s visuals are (literally) orgiastic. And the sheer inventiveness of the effects is wonderful.
A highlight of the work is Orryelle’s astonishing creation of Cerberus, the three-headed dog of the dead, through a series of clay hands animated through the old-school magic of stop-action photography. It is a clever idea that becomes transcendent when the various hands scatter, spider-like, across the webs of the sculptured Hekate Rexichthon’s dress in a sequence that somehow manages to be fascinating, funny, and frightening, all at once.
The effect culminates in the finale where – through an incredible visual device – dozens of nude bodies become the actual materia of Baphomet...'
-Jack Grayle, author of the The HekatAeon.
Read the full review HERE
'...What rips his movie from the canvas is the almost palpable energy —with two kinetic climaxes—that emerges from its Homeric narration and stylized repetition' -Giles Edwards
Images and Text (c) 2020 Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule