Original title: Delirium
Copyright:  Ihor Podolchak, 2013.
Format: feature narrative, drama
Carrier: DVD
Color: yes
Length: 96 min.
Original language: Ukrainian
English subtitles: yes

Film crew
Director: Ihor Podolchak
Script writer: Ihor Podolchak, ispired by Dmytro Beliansky's novel Inductor
Director of photography: Mykola Yefymenko
Art director: Svitlana Makarenko
Producer: Ihor Podolchak, Ihor Diurych, Tamara Podolchak, Liliya Mlynarych
Original music: Oleksander Shchetynsky
Sound director and sound design: Myroslav Kuvaldin
Set designer: Kostiantyn Siomkin
Produced with the support of the Hubert Bals Fund of the Rotterdam International Film Festival

Film cast
Volodymyr Khym'yak as Guest
Lesia Voinevych as Mother
Petro Rybka as Father
Olha Horbach as Daughter
Olha Bakus as Maid
Vasyl Kostenko as Son, Son-in-law
Ivan Kostenko as Priest

Synopsis
This second feature narrative by the recognized artist-turned-director Ihor Podolchak is best described as a free flow of consciousness. It is not so much about the plot or its development (none is to be found in the film) as about creating a strangely hypnotic atmosphere of mystery, presentiment, anxiety often bordering on horror. Podolchak does that with grim assertiveness of an obsessed mind through welding his visual sequences, often washed out and out-of-focus, as if to suggest that what you see does not matter as much as what you hear and feel, - with memorable soundtrack and the original music by Oleksander Shchetynsky, that will haunt you. The film brings to mind the spirit of one of the famous denizens of Lviv - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (as in Masochism) re-invented by an avid follower. The film also stands out in its use of the Ukrainian language, that sounds aristocratic, philosophical, esoteric and very natural.