[quote]Subliminal Films present:

[b]The Philosopher's Stone[/b]

Directed and produced by
[b]Raymond Salvatore Harmon[/b]

featuring the music of Bog (myspace.com/boggish)

starring Jacob Andrew Myers
introducing Isobel Julianna Harmon

The Philosopher's Stone tells the story of Jacob Fausstman, a scientist
and early alchemist who searches for the key to curing man of the
disease of death. In his frustration Jacob stumbles onto another path
to achieve his goals. Turning to the dark arts Jacob conjures the demon
Mephistopheles and is given the key to eternal life. But his
perceptions of 'life eternal' and the nature of his existence comes
into question once he has obtained his desire for true knowledge.

Base in equal parts on the Faustian archetype and the biographical
story of Dr. Albert Hoffmann's accidental discovery of LSD, The
Philosopher's Stone is an homage to early German Expressionist cinema
and the psychedelic visualizations of drug culture.

Courtesy of Greylodge.org

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The Philosopher's Stone will be available (via bit torrent) for full dvd quality
download [b]FREE Oct 31st 2008[/b] at [b]GREYLODGE.ORG[/b], [b]subliminalfilms.org[/b], and
streaming at:

[b]www.philosophersstone.org[/b]

for more information please contact:

[email protected]

or visit

greylodge.org
subliminalfilms.org
raymondharmon.com
philosophersstone.org

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A letter from the director;

In choosing to distribute this film I have decided to skip the
theatrical presentation stage and go directly to sourcing the film via
the bit torrent network. By giving the public full access to this film
I hope to encourage other filmmakers to realize the potential of their
audience by abandoning the outdated model of cinematic distribution in
favor of an open relationship with the viewers themselves.

After years of struggle with the format of distribution cinema has
found an ever evolving platform of distribution on the internet. Years
of so called 'format wars', first between film gauges and then between
dv formats, have ended in the wake of widening broadband access for the
average person.

The ability for anyone to simple download and watch a film already
exists, as does the ability for anyone to make a film and allow the
world to experience it directly. The filmmaker has a wide range of
encoding practices available that allow them to maximize video quality
for each project's distribution on the web. As further technologies and
better codecs are develop the filmmaker will be able to expand on the
available sources for the cinematic presentation.

As much as the Philosopher's Stone visually represents a historic
period in early 20th century cinema it looks forward to a future
unfettered by lack of distribution and a platform for broadcast that
gives everyone a chance to experience cinema to its fullest.

This film is meant as a mirror, reflecting what has been onto what will
become.

Obviam lux Lucis

Raymond Salvatore Harmon
October 3rd - 2008[/quote]