Return to Valhalla

  • Director

    Eddy Falconer

  • Country, Year, Length

    United States, 2024, 35:22

  • Category

    Experimental

  • Format

    digital

  • Festival Year

    2025

Synopsis

Through salvaged artworks, travel videos, and recuperative actions, this essay film traces the scale of the personal against that of the epic. It has a particular sense of lost time, and of blurred boundaries between realities lived, imagined, and hypothesized. An obsession is lived out in pursuit of the elements of a 30 year old trauma: can what seems fated be rewritten through some digging in history, or language, or location?

Valhalla, the home of the gods in Norse mythology, famously depicted in the operas of Richard Wagner as a place of final rest when the light dims on these waning superpowers….Here, a cinematic meditation on what the superpower of stitching tenses and moments and even new words together might really mean to the filmmaker.

Film Screening & Ticket Information

When & Where to See this Film!

…COMING SOON…

Film Information

From the Director

Director Biography

Eddy has screened half a dozen works at FilmFreeway festivals and others elsewhere. A creator of hand painted animations and mixed genre videos, they have a background in theater and live action experimental film. They are based in the Bay Area.

Credits

    • Eddy Falconer
      Director
      This Could Be, Mood Circus, Unica Zürn, The Tarot of Berlin, Hoppla!!!, IBÉRIA
    • Patricia White
      Key Cast