Watch Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World (1985) Online

Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World belongs to a 35-hour film cycle, The Book of All the Dead, which comprises the bulk of Toronto-based Bruce Elder’s filmmaking from 1975 to 1994. In ancient Egyptian culture, the Book of the Dead consisted of religious texts intended to help preserve the spirit of the departed in the afterlife — but in Elder’s reading, that comforting idea of continuity takes on a rather darker cast. Lamentations is comprised of a complex audio and visual patchwork: a philosophical meditation superimposed as text throughout the film; vignettes featuring a comical but disturbing Franz Liszt, a debate between Isaac Newton and George Berkeley, an angry, deranged man in an alley, and an arrogant psychiatrist; and a final search for salvation in the forests of British Columbia, the American Southwest, and Mexico’s Yucatan. Read More

Watch Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World online. Featuring Robert Fothergill and Kristina Jones, Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World is classified as Mystery genre movie with an average rating across the web of 7.3. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in Canada and was released on 1985. Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World was directed by Robert Fothergill,Michael Snow,R. Bruce Elder. Read Less