Screening Block #2
Duluth, Minnesota 55802
United States
Each screening block contains 2 hours of programming that includes an episode of individual web series and up to 15 minutes of each podcast. Each podcast has a visual on screen and is programmed between two web series.
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Stardust
Department of Paranormal Affairs
Out Cold
Closure
Six months later, Ethan transforms his appearance and continues seeking women to date, eventually meeting Briana, who is waiting for her sister at the park. Her sister's absence leads to Ethan accompanying her for a walk. Meanwhile, Dr. Tobin grows suspicious of Ethan's behaviour towards the women he has been dating. Whilst the connection between Ethan and Briana begins innocently enough, as their interactions deepen, Ethan's hidden darkness resurfaces after he notices a tattoo on her back that reveals a dissimilarity to his mother, leading to her murder.
Loren, Briana's younger sister, receives a phone call from a friend of Briana advising she has not heard from her in a few days and Loren grows concerned. Discovering messages linking Briana to Ethan, Loren investigates by visiting his home and uncovers the unsettling evidence of Ethan's actions. Further discovering a photo of his late mother, Angelique, Loren notices she bears a striking resemblance to this woman.
A bereaved Loren seeks help from Dan, a friend of her deceased father, to enact her own vendetta of justice for her murdered sister. Loren is visited by Detective Turner, who questions her about Briana's disappearance. Fueled by her own desire for retribution, Loren feigns ignorance, keeping her true intentions hidden. While planning her revenge, Loren changes her identity to help become intertwined with Ethan’s past, disguising herself to look similar to Ethan's deceased mother. Loren soon engages him in conversation in his local park and thus begins her game of psychological chess.
Through their following interactions, Loren uncovers Ethan's deeper vulnerabilities, emotions, and past. Ethan cuts ties with Dr. Tobin, feeling a sense of peace. Dr. Tobin, however, contacts the authorities, sensing the darkness lurking beneath Ethan's facade and believing he is a danger to society. Ethan and Loren spend the afternoon together and as the night progresses, a shared moment in a bathtub triggers a flashback that unveils the traumatic incident involving Ethan’s parents' death that shaped his life. In the present, Ethan and Loren grow intimate, with Loren surviving the bathtub encounter. Later in the night, Loren reveals her true identity to Ethan, exposing that Briana was her sister. She fatally wounds Ethan, and Detective Turner arrives on the scene, knocking at the door without answer. He investigates around the outside of the house until he finds himself in the dwelling underneath Ethan’s house.
In a post-credits scene, Loren cleans up the aftermath and takes off with Briana’s bracelet, leaving her with a sense of closure amidst the darkness. This scene shows that Detective Turner's arrival was not until days after the murder.
Shadow Clock - EP 6 | Child
Dark Arcadia
Dark Arcadia is a story about love. A story about revenge. And a story about the validity (or not) of taking justice into our own hands.
Examining the colliding worlds of rebelling teenagers and the adults charged with their care, inspired by world events and gender politics, this gothic fantasy is the next project from the universe of the internationally award-winning Shakespeare Republic, written and directed by Australian actor/writer/director, Sally McLean.
Dark Arcadia … something wicked this way comes …
ABOUT THE SERIES
Using Shakespeare’s original text, we meet seventeen different characters from seven different plays over a 24 hour period, set in the microcosm of an Australian high school, exploring power, relationships, the idea of outrage culture, #FakeNews and the Elizabethan equivalent of a Grimm’s faerietale.
Primarily utilising the perspective of Generation Z, Dark Arcadia features some of Shakespeare’s most iconic characters played by a range of talented established and emerging actors. With a focus on female, culturally diverse, disabled and LGBTQI+ (including trans) talent, using his undiluted, original words, we journey into human relationships and their consequences with a touch of magic realism and a dash of food for thought.
This digital series creates a cohesive world built from a range of Shakespeare texts, threading together scenes from several of Shakespeare’s plays, as written, to create a multiple story strand structure set in the 21st Century.
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To watch all episodes, and find out more about the series visit: https://www.darkarcadia.com
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Shot in 4k.
Dark Arcadia is produced by Incognita Enterprises and funded via grants from the City of Melbourne, the British Shakespeare Association, Creative Victoria, and Creative Australia through an Australian Cultural Fund BOOST Grant, as well as tax deductible donations from the general public via the Australian Cultural Fund.