Adon Blake was visiting the National Gallery of Victoria in 2018 with his wife when he came across Peter Graham’s 1889 painting After the Massacre of Glencoe.
The haunting depiction of survivors climbing to safety in the Scottish Highlands above their torched homes would form the inspiration for his debut feature Heretics, which wrapped filming in Western Australia in August.
Set in 10th century Europe, the film follows 15-year-old Alka (Chloe-Jean Vincent), who must find the courage within herself to save her brother Sylwester (Kilian Roberts) from the clutches of the enemy.
The cast also includes Scott Cathery, Justin Markham, William Wallace Killen, and Kiran Wilson.
Blake, who wrote, directed, and is producing the project via his company Full Heart Films, said he wrote the story after being fascinated by the landscape in Graham’s work.
“For whatever reason, I imagined a family running up that hill [in the painting] away from something,” he said.
The haunting depiction of survivors climbing to safety in the Scottish Highlands above their torched homes would form the inspiration for his debut feature Heretics, which wrapped filming in Western Australia in August.
Set in 10th century Europe, the film follows 15-year-old Alka (Chloe-Jean Vincent), who must find the courage within herself to save her brother Sylwester (Kilian Roberts) from the clutches of the enemy.
The cast also includes Scott Cathery, Justin Markham, William Wallace Killen, and Kiran Wilson.
Blake, who wrote, directed, and is producing the project via his company Full Heart Films, said he wrote the story after being fascinated by the landscape in Graham’s work.
“For whatever reason, I imagined a family running up that hill [in the painting] away from something,” he said.
- 10/27/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
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