A meditative black-and-white short on the devastating effects of drug-use (in the personification of heroin). First screened in the Bay Area in a program of death-related films at the Oakland Museum of California.
On a cold day in November, a family of deer hunters returns from the field to the barn. A cinematic poem about deer hunting, masculinity and a fresh kill. Shot on Super-8mm black-and-white film on location in Wisconsin.
A woman reads Philip Lamantia's poem (from which the film gets its title) which evokes masculine angst as a hand acts out the scenario of the poem.