with Paolo Clevare
music by Alva White
director of photography Daniele Mastroianni
written, edited, & directed by Mario Murgia
YouTube: https://youtu.be/mfiEAixecWc
The True Story of the Christ's Return is an attempt at recreating the style and atmosphere of the 16mm experimental / art films of the 1970s, though still leaning a bit towards the horror, slightly sci-fi side. While this film is somewhat different than previous efforts, it still seems to have some of usual Italian flare. The story is a bit peculiar to say the least and you can see Jesus in jeans. (Incidentally, over a year after filming, I encountered a document in which Branch Davidian Jaime Castillo recalled David Koresh saying to him, "What if Christ came back . . . in our day, how would he look? . . . Maybe he'd be wearing . . . Levi jeans?" So, maybe indeed there's some truth to it all.) Jay Creepy of Severed Cinema notes, "This short has a lot of depth. [Mario Murgia] has seriously planned and executed the shots plus angles of the scenes to layer on dreamy doom-laden material."
Dedicated to the memory of Guilio Questi, whose final works inspired this film. That is, filmed and portrayed by the same person.
It is worth noting that the almost non-fitting poster art is heavily inspired by French poster artist Raymond Savignac.
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