Nigredo: a Cinepoem

Orpheus found himself becoming a patient at the black magick hospital he used to be the head of (such a hospital being where people, both voluntarily and involuntarily, obtain treatment if they have become cursed, possessed by demons, or have turned into black magicians). But that didn’t last very long. After seeing an angel named Eurydice fall from Heaven and beckon him to follow her into the dangerous, wolf-infested forest surrounding the hospital, he quickly escaped with the hospital’s entire supply of a demoniate called asmorphine. There in the woods, he came across an abandoned home where, while struggling not to turn around to kiss Eurydice, he began to abuse the asmorphine and start to reminisce on his tragic life and the events that led up to him becoming hospitalized – in particular his treatment of the cursed patient Alain Leroy, also known as “the ugliest man”.This is a scenario for a film that is impossible to make written in Amy Lowell’s polyphonic prose, i.e. prose that utilizes rhyming and alliteration and assonance, or you could say poetry written in the rhythm of prose. Accompanying this is a 2-hour long soundtrack you can find a link to in the introduction. This is meant to be read out loud at a rate of 180 words per minute while playing the soundtrack.