![]() Urging from his wife eventually led to investment parties, scouting locations, and finally borrowing enough money to begin the actual production. "From experience," he told me at his home in Pacific Palisades, "I came to the conclusion that it would have to be a film with no interior lighting, no costumes, no sets, no sound and just a handful of people." After twenty-five years in the film business with numerous and successful short films to his credit, Heilig still yearned to do his first feature and conceived of ONCE as something he could realistically afford to make. It was his wife Marianne who pulled ONCE out of the trunk and got the ball rolling. ![]() Like most filmmakers, Heilig has a trunk full of unfilmed projects-notes, treatments, sketches and scripts that never got off the ground. produced for the United States Information Agency, has been screened at the Trieste Science Fiction Film Festival, and he produced two segments, "Survival In Space" and "The Thinking Robot," for the excellent CBS documentary series THE 21ST CENTURY. His twenty-minute color short DESTINATION MAN. up to now, concentrated on the production of short documentary films, mainly for television distribution. ![]() ONCE is the first feature to be directed by filmmaker Morton Heilig who has. both in Intellectual and emotional terms, ONCE proves cinema’s limitless capacity to tell a story without a strict literary structure. It has no dialog, and only one location, an island. It has only three players: Christopher Mitchum as Creation, Marta Kristen as Woman, and Jim Ma- linda as Destruction. ONCE Is an extraordinary allegorical and aesthetic film experience, one of the simplest and most unique fantasies ever. It was directed by Morton Heilig, who apparently created a 3D virtual reality machine called Sensorama in 1962! Weirdly, it seems like the storyline of Once would make it an interesting counterpoint to the art horror of Begotten. This sounds exactly like the sort of crazy 70's art/fantasy cinema that I dig. In a climactic battle, Creation uses the newfound love by Humanity to finally defeat Destruction.All the reviews I read have been very helpful, and it makes me think that many wouldn't like it, but I think I would. Creation saves Humanity, and only then does Humanity realize the gift that Creation offers. ![]() But soon, Destruction's true nature becomes evident, and Humanity is all but destroyed by the fiery collapse of the house. Unrepentant Humanity begins to embrace Destruction's path, as evidenced by the building of a house of branches (civilization). When Humanity becomes vain and independent, Creation strikes out at her hubris. It takes little time before Humanity becomes a pawn in the bitter struggle between Creation and Destruction. Then Creation creates Humanity (Marta) for companionship. Creation makes life, and Destruction, failing in attempts to create, simply destroys. In this barren world, Creation and Destruction (Jim Malinda) exist in balance. Creation (Christopher Mitchum) washes up on a beach. ![]()
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