Rue D’Enfer

Featuring
Marie-Josée Lefebvre, Aerandre Oktan, Sasha Oktan
Director of Photography: Dennis Pike
Art Director: David Owen
Special Effects: Max MacDonald & Melinda Ramsay
Supervising Editor: Gino Zolezzi
Original Music: Svetlan Milosevic
Sound Mix: Daniel Pillerin Theatre D Toronto
Mastering: Q Media
Camera: Carmen Dodaro
Production Sound: David Ottier, Alexander Shapcott
Production Services: Complete Film & Video, Joe Sutherland Rentals, Technicolor , Addisons Inc.
Lingerie: Lovesick Corrective Apparel
Catering: Cafe Jack?
Tarantula: Warren Keilor
Special Thanks: Robert Algeo, Sophie Arthaud, Dominique Cardona, Chris Cassino, Dorothy Engleman, Penny Firth-Eagland, George Flak, Youngjeon Kim, Monica Penner, Laurie Tomin

Director & Writer: Jonny Silver
Producers: Jonny Silver & Eli Necakov

Film Synopsis
RUE D’ENFER, scene of ancient calamity, revolution, myth and popular theatre is in the virtual realm. The infamous street from old Paris is now located in a time-divide just beyond the real world - an energy corridor of particles and fragments of lives from past and future. A young family exists in the “paradox of reality and illusion” that is RUE D’ENFER. Once they were physical beings but now they’re reflections and shadows. They are simulations of themselves struggling to become real. The murder of reality has occurred on RUE D’ENFER. The young family’s eternal torment is to return to RUE D’ENFER and re-enact their tragedy. They’re still seeking answers as to why the father suddenly went on a rampage, murdering his wife and daughter, then killing himself. What triggered his madness? The clue is in a letter the father received from an unseen entity named, Maldoror, with cryptic writing and the power of mind control. What is the message? Who is Maldoror? The truth is inaccessible. The father, mother and daughter are already simulations of themselves in a future time before having experienced their real-life tragedy. (Drawn from Le Théâtre Grand Guignol, Lautréamont and Les Chants de Maldoror, the writings of Jean Baudrillard and Yuval Harari, and the history of Paris)