Passion
After escaping a toxic relationship, film artist Maja Borg investigates two religions and their respective sacramental practices: Christianity and BDSM. At first look, it may appear that the two have little in common with one another; nonetheless, there may be a spiritual connection between religion and subculture in terms of the ability that they have to heal. Borg investigates the European LGBT scene as well as the Christian heritage of northern Europe in order to go back to the center of who she is. She does this in a manner that is both dark and dramatic. In the film 'Passion,' which uses transcendental imagers to bring together literary and cinematic traditions into a ceremonial whole, passion and suffering are two sides of the same complex case. However, the abstractions lend a sense of human depth to the film's meetings, which depict Borg being tested in both his physical and spiritual capacities. And perhaps it is precisely this humanity that ends up being the thing that shows to be the thing that ties BDSM and theology on an emotional level, and possibly even a spiritual level.