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Dislandia:
a disturbing observance of a child existing in an indistinguishable time and place – shrouded by frustration and haunted by surrealist visions. Invited by communiqué, she ventures on a cathartic endeavor with a startling conclusion.
Produced & directed by Brian M. Viveros &
Eriijk Ressler
Soundtrack by
Brad Southard
Run time: 29 minutes
With shades of Luis Buñuel, Fernando Arrabal and Walt Disney, it is fascinating to observe. Dislandia is sure to unnerve the viewer with its dreamlike images that range from bizarre, symbolic, amusing, and erotic.
"for fans of early David Lynch and Alejandro Jodorowsky, as filmed by a cracked-out Salvador Dali…" – Synonymous
"Dislandia […] is a quietly eerie, boldly stylized short. It plays out like home movies of a vaguely monstrous little girl wandering through a dying landscape." – John Chandler, The Portland Tribune
"A sonicly haunting soundtrack"
"Starkly poetic"
"I enjoyed the delicate grotesqueness"
"I could not shake the images from my mind"
"A sophisticated, yet troubling sense of eroticism"
Listen to the startling soundtrack in its entirety (29.06 min/ 13.3 mb)! Brad’s critically applauded composition for immediate aural stimulation (quite a journey – indeed!). The Dislandia score is a mélange of folk, psychedelia, field recordings, Orientalism and African thumb numbin’. Download it…get loaded…turn inside out…
Dislandia is available to thee masses through the dvd compilation: Cinema of Death (
Cult Epics) which features cover art by brian viveros: "Underground Cinema first appeared in the 1960s with groundbreaking works by filmmakers as Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage and Andy Warhol, whose films dealt with provocative subjects such as politics, sex, magic and death. Cinema of Death compiles some of the most recent extreme films made, featuring raw, poetic, explosive images that will enter into and linger in the subconscious. "
