Aune or On Effective Demise

Aune is a 19th century girl confined to her bed living under the threat of amputation She has dreams of a park that are both premonitions of the future and a site at which its absence is played out An escalating sense of timelessness collapses Aunes two realities as her body takes on significance as a cipher for a larger process of dismemberment A love story turns into a film about sex death and the economy Filmed in large part in Victoria Park London the film is a loose adaptation of 1896 novel Aune by Finnish writer Immi Hellen