Experiencing Interruptions?

INTINCTION OBJECTION

Commissioned to investigate reports paranormal activity at a secluded convent and increasingly aggressive acts of civil disobedience by the nuns, a pious young priest learns an astonishing way to administer Holy Communion.

  • Nora Geist
    Director
    Films: Occidental Death. Photosets: Saintly Cadavers, Figures, Go Figure, Visages, The Brutish Empire, Devotion, Early Days, The Jury, Other Camera Eye, Edges, Spaces, Hopeless Glory, Reset, Stranded, Fragility, Beasts & the Field, Loched-in, Vanishing Object, Primrose Hill, Devotion, The Jury, Independent Scotland, Paper Glyphs: Scenes & Witness, Fenland
  • Nora Geist
    Writer
  • Liesel Tompkins
    Producer
    Films: Occidental Death. Photosets: Saintly Cadavers, Figures, Go Figure, Visages, The Brutish Empire, Devotion, Early Days, The Jury, Other Camera Eye, Edges, Spaces, Hopeless Glory, Reset, Stranded, Fragility, Beasts & the Field, Loched-in, Vanishing Object, Primrose Hill, Devotion, The Jury, Independent Scotland, Paper Glyphs: Scenes & Witness, Fenland
  • Marzipanic of London Ltd.
    Hair & Makeup
  • Molly Cockles
    Costumes
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Music Video, Short
  • Genres:
    Erotic, religious, political, environmental, Occult, horror, noir, lgbtix, climate
  • Runtime:
    2 minutes 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    November 29, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    1,640 GBP
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English, Italian
  • Shooting Format:
    Analog, then digital conversion
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - New School for Social Research
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Erotic & Bizarre Art Film Festival
  • Tag! Queer Shorts Festival
  • Festival AZYL
  • The Lift-Off Sessions
  • First-Time Filmmaker Sessions
  • BIDEODROMO
  • Planet 9 Film & Art Fest
  • Kind London presents “The People’s Film Festival”
  • Motion for Pictures
  • New Dreams International Film Festival
  • The Itinerant Cinema of La Bete Rousse
  • The Female Gaze in Erotic Film
  • Triple SSS 2020
Director Biography - Nora Geist

NORA GEIST
Born in Udine and based in London, Nora Geist makes portraits, places, and constructed scenes that treat looking as an act with consequences. Her work spans black-and-white film, hand-coloured studies, and colour photography, returning repeatedly to ritual, power, and the human specificity of the body.

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Director Statement

In a grape-blighted future, the Church believes it has found safety in a rule: bread may be dipped; only the priest may drink. Out of that tiny prohibition a movement mutates. Intinction Objection begins as a liturgical pressure group, a climate cell, an underground vinology—and ends as something far stranger.

Dispatched to “restore order” at the ancient Community of St Bonobo, a brilliant young chaplain—the Saint—finds a convent already speaking a different theology with its body. There he meets Countess Gerta von Suckula (granddaughter of the convent’s patron) and Sister Isabella Fellatia (Abbess), strategists of a revolt that refuses to choose between sacrament and sabotage. Before mass begins, the nuns look intently at the Saint, and see that his face is like the face of an angel…. What follows is not argument but anti-liturgy: the Church’s own grammar—sanctuary, habit, chant, kneeling—turned back on itself until obedience, desire and doctrine are indistinguishable.

Production note: The original live footage was shot in New York in 1991 on analogue equipment, and reissued 35 years later as the present film.