Medea

It's a movie about a woman who beheads her brother, stabs her children, and sends her lover's wife up in flames. For Maria Callas, it's a natural.

Medea is made with a particularly complex procedure: encaustic painting on vitrified film. The result is an alchemical work that lives on matter and light, a cinematic-pictorial jam session that blends perfectly well with jazz improvisation, a work specifically created from evocative metaphorical compositions that deftly evoke a magmatic and crystallized reality.