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The Milkweed Tree of Life

🎞️ Movie 48 min --
2013

This fictionalized biography and musical comedy is an experimental trans-media production which combines film, dance/music video and staged poetry readings. Here we examine the life and professional death/rebirth of elusive and enigmatic Milkweed - comedic actor, writer and musician - as investigated by academic researcher Professor Eugene Morr, whom recruits his colleague and long-time friend Professor Isaac Linus to the project. Eventually, Prof. Morr discloses to Prof. Linus that he has become so obsessed with him that he has recorded songs and written plays and poems that he hopes Milkweed will use in his art. However, Prof. Linus soon confesses that he is in fact Milkweed himself and has been living a double life - keeping his academic position and artistic career so separate that dissociative personality disorder had set it. The team must reconcile their friendship and professional pursuits in light of this. The project becomes something else entirely as this news causes them to have to re-assess what reality and the perception of reality is as well as the various characters or roles we all play out in our lives in order to manifest our pain and suppressed desires.

Cast

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Collin Lee Ellis
Professor Eugene Morr
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Kevin Barry Comerford
Professor Isaac Linus
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Kevin Barry Comerford
Milkweed
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Kelly Joseph Comerford
Milkweed's Brother
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Kimberly Fedor Comerford
Milkweed's Wife
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Kevin Barry Comerford
Composer
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Kevin Barry Comerford
Cinematographer