Lysis
(DIRECTING)
CREDITS
DirectorMark Cira
CinematographerAdam Stewart and Mark Cira
VFXMark Cira
Original MusicAlia O’Brien
Official Selection – Montreal Underground Film Festival
Official Selection – Experimental Brasil
Official Selection – Darkroom Festival
Official Selection – VASTLAB Experimental 2026
Official Selection – Pleasure Dome
Official Selection – Experimental Film Guanajuato
SYNOPSIS
The result of three years of experimentation, “Lysis” cycles through five different film stocks and a variety of processing methods.
A hybrid of optical effects, post-processing analog techniques and digital effects achieves a mosaic of painterly impressions. “Lysis” revolves around themes of the porosity of the self in relation to memory, place and time. One part visual landscape of the soul as it yearns for the past and its place within it, set against the textural disembodiment of nostalgia in post-capitalist urban decay.