Fiction
15 Min.
Germany 2017
Director: Rupert Gruber
Producer: Rupert Gruber / Co-Producer: Maximilian Kühn
Format: 1:2,35 / 2k anamorph / Arri Alexa SXT
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Blood Is Spirit is a 15 minute long short film written and directed by Rupert Gruber. It is the story of the thirty-eight year old sociopath Charles Mansfield. Due to strong isolation, Charles‘ mind continously drifts towards an utopia, in which he finds himself superior to the society that once rejected him. In illusion of total superiorityhe starts a bloody rage to prepare the world for a new era only led by ingenious, better men.