'Water People', Beta SP Color, 53 minutes: Anthology Film Archives, 11/02; Millennium Film Workshop 5/04

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WATER PEOPLE is an erotic and painful allegory of dark desire featuring blazing performances by its lead actors. Stew (Sascha Eiblmayr), a gutarist and intellectual, is traveling to the country with his girlfriend Carrie (Bijoux Altamirano) and their dog, Max, to Stew’s recently-deceased grandmother’s home to deal with her estate. Just as death is palpable in the house with its eerily silent rooms filled with boxes of decaying furniture and old photographs to be auctioned off, so too is the couple’s relationship creeping toward an unspoken demise. Stew, who suffers from an unknown ailment and is in a perpetual state of denial, frantically clutches at his oversexed girlfriend, who resents being tied down by any man. She sets her designs on an unwitting local gardener (Ryan Pilstl) and uses him as a pawn in her game of sexual manipulation and destruction. Through voyeuristic imagery and a deafening silence, the tension builds to its climax.

Written, Directed, Produced, and Edited by NED AMBLER

Starring: SASCHA EIBLMAYR as Stew

and BIJOUX ALTAMIRANO as Carrie

With: LITHGOW OSBORNE, MAXIMILLIAN DE WYNTER and Introducing RYAN PILSTL as the Gardener

Image by SEAN P. WILLIAMS

Associate Producer LITHGOW OSBORNE

Music by THEO

NED AMBLER PICTURES COPYWRIGHT 2002