October, 2020

Short Film written, directed & co-produced by Adamska Elizaveta Rakhilkina.

Currently in Festival Circuit

Best Short Film Award at LGBTQ+ Toronto Film Festival
Best LGBTQ+ Filmmaker Award at Sappho Film Festival
Best LGBT Film Nominee at Mabig Film Festival
Honorable Mention at Tokyo International Short Film Festival and New Wave Short Film Festival
Official Selection at Wicked Queer: Boston's LGBTQ Film Festival, Oregon Scream Week Horror Film Festival, Berlin Flash Film Festival, Arc Film Festival, Rio LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, Lesflicks Cinema at LFEST, HIVE: International Neukölln Short Film Days, PrideFlix

A lesbian reverie set amidst the backwoods of New England, New Flesh for the Old Ceremony explores the physicality of grief through a macabre fable about a woman whose wife is devoured by and then possesses their beloved pack of dogs.

Starring Ana Maria Jomolca, LeeAnne Hutchison and Catherine Curtin

Producer: Lecia Ductan
Executive Producer: Alexander Rakhilkin
1st AD: Samson Jeter
Editor: Jo Shaffer & Morgan Gu
Production Designer: Sarah Moskowitz
Colorist: Alexia Salingaros
1st AC: Joey Fong-Lamboy
2nd AC: Emmet Luciano
Art PA: Olivia Krueger
Gaffer: Vadim Goldenberg
Key Grip: Jeremy Liguori
Grip: Miles Quinn
Grip: Daniel Sachun
Script Superviser: Alisa Traskunov
Line Producer: Matthew Ericson
Sound Operator: Iris Liu
HMU: Anastasia Samoylova
UPM: John Chiodi
Production Coordinator: Aja Evans
PA: Aleka Agre
PA: Carolina Zeitune
Media Managers: Maurice Wright & Bailey Oliver
Swing: Austin Price

Dogs featured in the film: Eliza, Annie, Dannie, Fender & Milo