Return to the Pleasure Dome (2017)
Director : Robert Lang

EXPERIMENTAL SHORT

Officially selected to be screened at the 2018 Bokeh South Africa International Fashion Film Festival on 20th - 29th September in CPT & JHB
IMDB - Return to the Pleasure Dome

High octane erotic dancing to a gritty rockabilly tune as she dances against a blinding light to a Tiki theme backdrop.
An unnatural menacing force glares upon the vixen. Aware, she still dances.

Madness ensues as the surreal and nightmarish event unfolds setting the stage for the question of whats real and whats not. Who does she dance for? Is it a dream or hallucination?

-Inspired by Kenneth Anger's 1954 cult classic "The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome", photographer Robert Lang presents the short film "Return to the Pleasure Dome" as a homage to the classic and envisions his own version of events to the paraquel.

As it most of Anger's films, he leaves the interpretation to the viewer for arts sake. Toiling with the idea of occultism as that was a major theme from the original which featured ceremonial masks and drugged-up lusty creatures as subliminal symbols appear and vanish. Like the laughing monster from the film who emerges and disappears out of view, takes center stage here in the short.
Actress Skye P Marshall is a Chicago native and ex US Marine. She Currently stars on the Netflix show Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Black Lightning, The Fix and has starred alongside Al Pacino and Anthony Hopkins in 'Misconduct'. She guest starred in Shameless, Grey's Anatomy and as Towanda Braxton in the Toni Braxton: Unbreak My Heart' TV Film.