Filmmaker Statement

A period piece. A dark, surreal drama. A story about unrequited love, self-acceptance and the limits of the sane mind. With "For I Am Dead" I wanted to show the personal and social struggle to accept the nature of who an individual is, when his/her desires or choices do not correspond to the majority. In this particular case, Oscar is fighting with his homosexuality, but this is just one of many possible incarnations portraying this dilemma. I chose to set the story at this moment in time, the late 1800s, with the intention to accentuate the fact that these kinds of questions - still relevant today - were raised long ago, yet nothing has changed. Will belonging to a minority ultimately end in tragedy? This story can be extended to any situation of identity repression: Oscar being a victim of a time, an ideology, of himself; Jude being the response to him, in the form of love or hate. In any case and despite the consequences, this permission to be yourself should start from within.