USED AND BORROWED TIME
written and directed by
SOPHIA ROMMA
"Used and Borrowed Time," written and directed by Sophia Romma, is a non-conformist psychological thriller set in Birmingham, Alabama, both today and in the turbulent 1960’s. A blind, elderly Jewish woman recalls her ill-fated love affair with a Black civil rights activist during the civil rights upheaval of the Sixties. She is phantasmagorically transported to her past, reliving the tyranny unleashed upon her and her young African American lover by a merciless white supremacist family.The film has a myriad of theatrical touches, notably its dialogue, which is partly written in Quantum Verse. This is a style that runs through Ms. Romma's stage works. It derives from the question, "How real is the universe?" and the notion that it may contain parallel dialogues, a simple one and a metaphysical one.
Starring:
Alice Bahlke - Lorna (Woods) / Kitty O'Neill
Marshall Bonny - Weldon Johnson
Clas Duncan - Steadroy Johnson
Manana Gitana - Roma Sorceress/Fortune Teller
Seth Hendricksen - Fred Busch
Ox King - Chad McCord
Cam Kornman - Older Eva Gold
Grant Morenz - Wade Woods
Maureen O'Connor - Blanche Woods
Gavin Rohrer - Jed Woods
Emily Seibert - Younger Eva Gold
Executive Producer - Renee Lekach
Cinematographer - Uladzimir Taukachou
Film Editor - Sergio Voronin
Original Songs - Queen Ilise and Her Four-Piece Band
Visual Effects - Serjio Samokhvalov
Music - Kevin Macleod
Trailer - Arthur Karaulov
Color Correction - Kirill Vlassov
Sound Director - Alex Voronin
Producer - Sergio Voronin
Press Representative - Jonathan Slaff & Associates