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INTO OBLIVIØN, Episode 01: Wekufe

INTO OBLIVIØN, Episode 01: Wekufe

No tree can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

2022 · 5 min · ★ 6.0 · Documentary, Music

This new documentary, surrounding the creation of the OBLIVIØN double album, chronicles my decent into depths I was previously unaware of. It’s my guidebook to the underworld. My love letter to the vast galaxies that exist beneath the iceberg surface of our conscious minds. A dive into parts of the ocean so deep that light never penetrates them. A world inhabited by the beasts we thought we banished from our minds.

Directed by Justin Taylor Phillips

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