POMPEII NEW YORK

In Pagan Puritan Gotham, love hunters pursue their rituals on a crumbling pier reminiscent of ancient Pompeii, where they find the unexpected.

A film written and directed by Ivan Galietti

With Tina Aumont, Phoebe Legere, William Niederkorn,
Michael Oppedisano, Kevin Bradigan, Vincent Barnes,
David Wojnarowicz, Karl Michalak, Melinda Ritter,
Joey Voitko, David Said, Terry Robinson, Dieter Hall,
Sante Scardillo, Ivan Steiger, Kip Turner, Orham Mehmet,
Penny Arcade, Aner Candelario, Carlo Jimenez,
Rick Baxter, Donald Berman, John King, Daniel Posival,
Bill White, Edward Willis, Iara Zapovnikof .

Original songs by Hawkins/Niederkorn and Phoebe Legere
Original score by Victor Frost

(In production)

Narration pieces:

Voice of MICHAEL OPPEDISANO: "When we were so far from the jungle That it was completely out of sight, We encountered those souls Walking along the pier. Each of them looked at us As in the evening men are wont to stare at one another under a new moon light, and sharpened their brow like the old taylor, squinting at the needle's eye." (DANTE's INFERNO Canto XV, Stanza V)

TINA AUMONT: One goes through one's own solitude In search of an antique gesture In this universe of ghettos Thirsty for filthy tenderness By an unconscious hunger for love.
Voice of IVAN STEIGER: Once inside the old pier I felt as if I were in ancient Pompeii, when the phallic cults flourished. Where representations of the male organ Frequently appeared And were worshipped as divine symbols Of the creative forces of Nature.	Pompeii, 79 A.D.

Phoebe Legere