Jo-jo at the Gate of Lions

Jo-Jo is a young woman who hears voices. She meets and falls in love with Jon, an astronomer with whom she fee/s a strange affinity. For Jon, life is complete once he has found Jo-Jo; his destiny is achieved. However, Jo-Jo's voices tell her that she must sacrifice her desire for a simple happiness with Jon if she is to fulfill the strange and elusive destiny in store for her She believes that by resisting what she wants, or by embracing pain, she may be able, in some mysterious and mystical way, to prevent nuclear war. The voices compel her to accept as part of her fate a relationship with Luke, a shadowy phone-sex entrepreneur who persuades her to come work for him. He, too, imagines that Jo-Jo belongs to him, and that she is drawn to his very violence. Caught between these two men, between her destiny and her desires, Jo-Jo withdraws from the demands and joys of the real world. She focuses her mind inward, in a kind of apotheosis, to understand the message voices bring her, a message of passion, fear and spiritual transfiguration.

Director, screenplay and editor: Britta Sjogren.
Director of photography: Greg Watkins.
Art director: Adam Braff.
Music: Jonathan Sampson.
Sound: Caveh Zahedi.
Cast and characters: Lorie Marino (Jo-Jo), Chris Shearer (Jon), David Schultz (Luke), Rosanna (Rosanna), Beatrice Hayes, Kate Griba.
Director of Production: Britta Sjogren.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Nana Films, 409 Cochran # 106, Los Angeles, Ca. 90036, USA, tel. 213-9329079.