WHERE'S THE DRAMA?

Writer/director, Christina Conrad, explores the darker absurdities of modern love in her eccentric and disarming cinematic confession. In this excerpt, Leith confronts her lover, Jelly, over a fig tree he has ordered for one of his students. Jelly: Craig Borehan Leith: Marc Carlis Hart: Ryan Lee Producer: Melissa Anastasi DOP: Steve Macdonald

A LETTER FROM JACK FELDSTEIN

I watched Jelly's Placenta and thank Christina for giving me the DVD.

True originality is always strange to others.

In my mind, that's because while the rest of us have been greatly influenced, true originality only has itself as its reference.

Christina has made up her own language... in art. ( film, poetry, sculpture whatever). And as opposed to being some bland, inoffensive esperanto that the rest of us have learned to communicate with...that language is unique and surprising, dangerous and ultimately exciting.

So I understand Jelly's Placenta through that prism. And thank and recognise and admire that Christina has the guts to be exactly who she is... through her art.

Besides that, the film is certainly beautiful to look at.

Now because I am only human and susceptable to patterns...I see similarities with Matthew Barney's The Kremaster Cycle.

Has anyone else mentioned that?

JACK FELDSTEIN

filmmaker

Posted by scripttools on November 22, 2009 at 11:12 PM

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