There are certain films that simply beg to be experienced without a full awareness of what to expect.

Elysian is such a film.

Co-directed by Lewis D. Chaney and Neil Kellen, Elysian emphasizes atmosphere and imagery rather than linear storytelling in painting a world that exists between life and whatever exists on another plane. The story of Elysian is painted with very few words, in fact none until the film’s final moments. Instead, Chaney and Kellen allow the film’s images, the body language of the actors and even the film’s original music, courtesy of Mina Fedora, to draw the viewer into the story–The Independent Critic