“Hell is empty and all the devils are here,” reads the text – a quote from Shakespeare’s The Tempest (Act 1, Scene 2) – that opens Andrew de Burgh’s latest feature The Demoness. What is meant by ‘here’ is spelt out by the following image of the Los Angeles skyline at night, as the city…
While her husband Robert (Jason Faunt) sleeps, Zara (Rocio Scotto) slips out of bed and downstairs to the basement storeroom, where, from a case in a chest, she takes out a notebook scribbled with the kind of inchoate chiaroscuro sketches that in horror conventionally codify a person’s diabolical descent. This opening to writer/director Andrew de…
“Around the year 330 A.D. in what is now Turkey, there lived a kind-hearted bishop named Saint Nicholas.” Much as the title of Andrew de Burgh’s short film The Legend of Santa promises myth while suggesting its flipside, the text with which it opens similarly equivocates between fact and fiction by situating its events in…
First published by EyeforFilm “The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.” This quote from Plato, appearing in text form at the beginning of writer/director/producer Andrew de Burgh’s Just One Drink, also establishes the short film’s central theme: the ambiguous guises of righteousness that injustice can adopt. We also…