-The facts about Mengaloth The Amateur film Mengaloth had a budget of only $3,000. The film takes place in the Sokndal commune in Norway, plus a minor portion in Denmark. It was begun in 1999, and finished in 2005. The reason it has taken so long, is that people who have participated in the film have given of their own free time. It has therefore not always been easy to assemble all the actors simultaneously. Equipment used has been an ordinary video camera, synthesizer (plus some genuine instrumentation) and a PC with Windows 98se... The director is Paul Magnus Lundø. He plays the part of Palo, and has made the costumes and props. These young men had no experience with filming, and set up a project not knowing how it would end. The result was good, but they still wish the whole history was clearer. The film has received favorable attention in Norway, and was one of the best amateur films in 2005. Setting of the film; Somehow Palo, son of Nemloh, is the only survivor of one of the many battles comprising the Great War. Palo flees to the wilderness to seek refuge from the outside world. Two years later Palo learns that the evil which was turned loose in the world during the war, has made a deeper and greater ruin than he realized. The war is far from over—it has only shifted arenas. |