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Logline

When a woman struggling with her faith dreams of her own death and resurrection, she and her partner confront its meaning from two different crises: one of faith, the other of love.

Synopsis

A woman recounts a dream to her partner in which she inhabits her partner's body and encounters her own corpse in the shape of a bloody sheet. She resurrects her corpse by infusing lace with her partner's and the sheet's blood.

They struggle to convey their interpretations of the dream: the dreamer sees a vision of Catholic faith while her partner one of love. As we listen to their conversation in the waking world, the dream unfolds visually in two parallel forms: one sunlit, the other rain-soaked.

Epistolary considers how belief might survive its own destruction and how love, too, may have to be broken apart before it can be understood anew.

The Making of Epistolary

Working outside a conventional production model, George and Antonio take a hands-on approach on all parts of the filmmaking process: set construction, writing, sound, and cinematography. Working with a minimal crew during their free time allows them to try out ideas that would otherwise be difficult to pursue. The film's principal set has been constructed by hand over the course of six months.

Its Talavera-style tilework draws from a pottery tradition associated with Puebla and Tlaxcala, while its walls recreate the lath-and-plaster construction common before the widespread adoption of drywall.