The Oracle (1993)

Set in Port Townsend San Francisco and the bardo terrains of the soul realm this promising 70minute debut feature shot in Hi8 and 34 video and Super 8 film is a visionary exploration of an elderly bedridden mans interior journey toward death and beyond Its also a sometimes humorous sometimes heartrending portrayal of his familys changing perceptions of the process of death It follows the final day in the life of an elderly patriarch who has lapsed into an intermittent coma As he dies his son returns home to visit the family where he unexpectedly participates in an ancient ritual of ancestral origins