ROPEd (2017)
Based on Margaret Atwood's poem "Half-hanged Mary" and on true events that took place in 1685, in Hadley, Massachusetts.
A short dramatic film about a fiercely independent woman who is condemned by her neighbours to die by hanging. Mary is marched out to a field where a full lynch mob awaits and promptly hang her from a tree, leaving her there to die. However the rope's knot fails to do the trick. In the morning, the townspeople gather to take Mary down from the tree only to make a startling discovery, one that will haunt them to their graves.
TRAILER here
Mini instagram movie behind the scenes
Directed by Riel Aarons
Produced by Jordana Aarons, Sebastian Barriuso, Holly-Lee Rispin, Jefferson Mappin
DOP Iris Ng
Production Designer Mark Kowalsky
Assistant Costume Designer Robyn Macdonald
Wardrobe Assistants Tara Thompson, Kate Tabone, Jessica Stanton, Alissa Moszynski
Starring Mary Krohnert and Andrew Gillies
A short dramatic film about a fiercely independent woman who is condemned by her neighbours to die by hanging. Mary is marched out to a field where a full lynch mob awaits and promptly hang her from a tree, leaving her there to die. However the rope's knot fails to do the trick. In the morning, the townspeople gather to take Mary down from the tree only to make a startling discovery, one that will haunt them to their graves.
TRAILER here
Mini instagram movie behind the scenes
Directed by Riel Aarons
Produced by Jordana Aarons, Sebastian Barriuso, Holly-Lee Rispin, Jefferson Mappin
DOP Iris Ng
Production Designer Mark Kowalsky
Assistant Costume Designer Robyn Macdonald
Wardrobe Assistants Tara Thompson, Kate Tabone, Jessica Stanton, Alissa Moszynski
Starring Mary Krohnert and Andrew Gillies
And it was an incredible joy to be reunited with Mary Krohnert who I attended theatre school with so many years ago.