Effigy
Isolated on the fringes of a soulless metropolis, Catherine survives on scraps of translation work. But a mysterious client offers a lucrative job, and an opportunity for Catherine to indulge in her malformed and incompatible desires. As the film unravels, the lines between reality and delusion blur, seamlessly mirroring Catherine's struggle to make sense of the tainted fragments of her client's mysterious scroll.
The
Making of
Born in New Orleans, writer-director John Cairns has lived and worked as a writer, director and producer for commercial and independent film and video productions in America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He holds an MFA degree in film production from Syracuse University and studied film theory at the Paris Center for Critical Studies, Sorbonne. His debut feature, SCHOOLGIRL APOCALYPSE, played at the Japan Filmfest Hamburg as well as Fantasia in Montreal. Cairns lives in Tokyo and is a director at Lantis KK. EFFIGY is his second feature.