SHADOW GENE

Damsel (Elisabath Dahl) has been raised to be a deadly killer eradicating men infected with a dangerous gene. But then one day she has an encounter with Mueller (Riley Stewart), a seedy Corporate Executive and finds the power shifting between victim and perpetrator. She is thrown headlong into a personal catharsis that uncovers aspects of corporate and political greed at the heart of her mission. As events unfold, Damsel must decide whether to continue her mission or to tconfront her benefactors. Shadow Gene, shot in London on grainy black and white 16mm film pays homage to the French Nouvelle Vague of Jean-Patrick Manchette's craftily created noir world as it follows an ethereal female assassin stalking testosterone-fuelled Corporate Executives in a dystopian city, to an accompaniment of a sparse avant garde piano score by talented composer Nedyalka Dimitrova. Analogue driven and produced with a skeleton crew for minimal resources, the film is an important, aesthetically charged representation of the anti-heroine. Using live action re-claimed 16mm and S8mm film, photographic prints, hand-drawn animation and graphics the film makes a pure socio-expressionist political and cultural statement as well as underlining its wholly experimental character.