"Samuel" selected for Fall film festival

Paul Rapsey’s third and most recent film, “Desperately Seeking Samuel”, has just been jury selected for the Fall 2022 LGBTQ Unbordered International Film Festival in the USA. Like his other films, it is a monologue produced with no budget and using the most basic equipment. The film runs 80 minutes. Paul knows that the subject of the film is not everyone’s “cup o’ tea”. In fact, someone wrote that he found it “dark, depressing and claustrophobic” and so did not watch it in its entirety.

The play takes place in a confined space, a closet. It is the story of an elderly man who has lost his memory and, in his entrapment, slowly puts the pieces of his life together. Most people who have viewed the film to date have given very positive feedback, with one viewer stating that Paul is “an amazing story teller!” He wrote: “I feel it! …confined in the uncertainty of entrapment.….suspended in a fog of confusion…dangling in a web of memory….twisting in the stillness of scattered pieces….confined in a labyrinth of uncertainty…reveling in the magic of discovery….trusting in the hope of renewal.”

Paul hopes to perform the play live, perhaps locally if he can find the right venue. A first performance is planned in Ontario this summer.

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