Shane Ryan's Dacryphilia and Hematolagnia
Shane Ryan's Dacryphilia and Hematolagnia Filmmaker Shane Ryan's Dacryphilia and Hematolagnia French playwright, mystic, and madman Artaud argued theater should leave realism, and return to a new spectacle of ritual, magic, and the heart of man. I recalled reading that watching filmmaker Shane Ryan's new cinema ritual of blood, spectacle, and magic called Dacryphilia and Hematolagnia. It starts off with images of murder, blood, and a girl in the dying throes of trauma. Shane does this silently, and lets the spectacle and imagery seep into your subconscious like the drifting nightmare. Blood and Gore are both trophies of horror and sensual mask of madness. A shirtless and ravaged nameless man is helpless before the eerie vicious attack from a woman with supernatural evil. Chapter 2 entitled her death then g...