Immunity

Raymond Steers : 2014

A tall, attractive stranger comes to a small Eastern European town and rents an apartment. At first he appears to be a photographer shooting startling black and white portraits on an antique camera, but soon the woman working at the old photo lab, her cousin, the journalist, and her grandfather begin to suspect that there is more to the photographs than meets the eye. The stranger possesses a mysterious object to which only he is immune. It cannot be shown to women, children, or anyone high on alcohol or drugs. He takes a photograph of each man who views the object, capturing their faces which reflect a variety of shocked responses. The man does not know what the object is: perhaps it is the most gruesome thing in the world. Or the most beautiful. After viewing the object, no man can, or will, speak about what he saw. As more clients come to view the object things start to get out of hand. Raymond Steers's second feature premiered at Sofia International Film Festival 2014.