Heave Above Rowen screens at KCIFF

Alice Voena's feature film "Heaven Above Rowen" will screen at the 30th annual Kansas City International Film Festival on September 18th at 5:30pm in Theater 3.

Under the influence of experimental smokable medication, Rowen Amadeus Camor (Alice Voena) is a queer cult leader consumed by psychedelic visions. After forming the Church of Avalon through the guidance of Promise (John Cameron Mitchell), a hallucinated deity, Rowen faces a slow mental breakdown as they search for identity and meaning the day before a prophesied religious doomsday.

The story unfolds with the lyricism and style of a glam concept album, through a series of poetic monologues set to the electronic soundscapes of Stephen Trask's score. Shot on a variety of digital formats (including Hi-8), printed frame-by-frame on paper, and then animated with lipstick and liner, Heaven Above Rowen is a cinematic trip all its own.

In support of newcomer Alice Voena´s adventurous debut feature, Heaven Above Rowen brings together Broadway and Queer Cinema icons John Cameron Mitchell & Stephen Trask, in their first collaboration since Hedwig & The Angry Inch (which has become canonical for generations of queer youth, cinephiles, and theatre lovers alike).

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