Burnt Reynolds

In conversation with Kenneth Anger's avant-garde classic, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954), After the Pleasure Dome fuses slow hypnotic performance, live visual effects and underwater footage inspired by a myth overheard while visiting a Sacred Cenote (Cenote Sagrado) at Chichén Itzá. The psychedelic imagery asks: what precious jewels threaten to drown you? Which riches must your expel to survive?

A re-imagining of Ovid's metamorphosis trope. Instead of Daphne transforming into a tree to escape from a God's intention to rape her, the violence is removed from the story and instead, her desire is foregrounded.