Length: 96 minutes Language: Emglish
Formats: Super 16mm, D1, Colour
Ratio: 1:185
Sound: Dolby digital
Producer/Writer/Director/Editor: Jano Rosebiani
Director of Photography: Brett Webster
Sound Designer: Markus Innocenti
Production Manager: Glenn Shapiro
Assistant Director: Jose Vergara
Music Composer: Michael Paul Gerard
Cast: Al Sapienzai - Sibel Erginer - Kim Dawson - John Burke - Debby Dodds - Aron Golob - Tracy Miller - Michael O'Connor - Michael Silverbacki - Annalisa Scott - Marlena
Life is a journey from oblivion to a greater oblivion, the thought of which can lead one to self-destruction.
Therefore we need traps to keep us busy. Traps like making love or making wars (depending on our makeup)
for they are our only commodity in life, as we are hostages to the power of our brains, prisoners in our imaginary
cells between the walls of inhibition beyond which lie unnamed consequences. Yes, we must continue to dance
like the eternal swinging of the pendulum.
In a secluded mountain retreat screenwriters Jack (Al Sapienza) and Charlie (Sibel Ergener) work the clock to meet the deadline on their latest installment THE PERFECT ROBBERY, in which sexploitation and violence are the dominant constituents. Among their trademark fictional subjects is Sally Singleton (Kim Dawson), a blond bimbo bombshell whom they have created and subsequently exploited.
All goes well until bullet-ridden Sally miraculously appears at their doorstep. Next, a series of psychotic events take place in which Jack and Charlie find themselves trapped and powerless at the mercy of their gun-wielding creation.
Sally's prowess and her supernatural qualities, i.e., her ability to swing back and forth between her fictional world and that of her makers, and her awareness of their every thought (being a product of their imagination she knows everything they know), make her invincible, which, in turn, makes Jack and Charlie the more vulnerable.
When they fail to meet her demands - to replace THE PERFECT ROBBERY with a modest PERFECT ROMANCE, and to grant her her basic human rights (i.e., freedom, happiness, respect and smaller breasts), the tables are turned around and the exploiters are treated to a taste of their own medicine. Sally makes good her threats as she turns their world into a living nightmare, that is, until they meet her demands.
"Dance of the Pendulum" ends with a cleverly surprising twist.
