landscape: gethsemane or elysium

Disintegrate.

ABOUT

A photographer accidentally captures a hidden cannibalistic ritual with her camera drone. Instead of alerting the authorities, she decides to stalk the killer. In the process of upending her mundane daily life, she explores the ghost-like experience of an ethereal observer. Look, gather, testify.

YEAR      2025

RUN TIME      17:49 Min

EMAIL shearer.tim13@gmail.com

CAST & CREW CREDITS

DIRECTOR-PRODUCER  Timothy Shearer

CINEMATOGRAPHER  Timothy Shearer

COMPOSER  Timothy Shearer

EDITOR  Timothy Shearer

PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS  Ren Schwarz

CAST

Tatim Topasna

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

With this film, I’m concerned about the contemporary state of media consumption in conjunction with the commonly accepted paradigm-of-world-understanding of mind-vs-matter where there is separation from one’s being and experience.

The film is spiritual, in essence, as we witness the protagonist disintegrating into images being taken. The protagonist must battle between transcending an established paradigm or sinking into its insidious traps of globally-adopted abstractions of perception.

DIRECTOR BIO

Mr. Shearer is a junior member of the Ittō Tenshin Ryū of Kenjutsu, a filmmaker with a background in music and mathematics.

He cites filmmakers Yasujiro Ozu and Apichatpong Weerasthetakul as his greatest influences in filmmaking. He draws from the well of gallery-work as primary inspiration for style and form. His long relationship with music-making has developed his natural aptitude for montage-form in his editing and directing style.

INTERVIEWS

FILM AND PRODUCTION STILLS

AWARDS

 

FULL FILM

Currently under 2-year embargo (2027)

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

Mr. Shearer is a junior member of the Ittō Tenshin Ryū of Kenjutsu, a filmmaker with a background in music and mathematics.

He cites filmmakers Yasujiro Ozu and Apichatpong Weerasthetakul as his greatest influences in filmmaking. He draws from the well of gallery-work as primary inspiration for style and form. His long relationship with music-making has developed his natural aptitude for montage-form in his editing and directing style.

(Update provided in April 2025)