The Birth of Adom – A Feminist Prelude to The Book of Immersion
In 2019, before The Book of Immersion had taken full shape, a short film flickered into being — The Birth of Adom. Six minutes of experimental cinema, spoken word, and orchestral-electronic music, it marked the first spark of an idea that would later grow into a full Immersion universe.
At its core, Adom is a parable for our times: a war-hungry world where poverty and politics collide, where rulers pacify citizens with drugs, and where the few who resist must rise against the machine.
🎶 The Soundtrack: Fauré Reimagined
The music was born from Gabriel Fauré’s mournful Élégie, but here it is fractured and rebuilt into Fugue on a Theme of Fauré by Tale Teller Club. A full orchestra swells — part electronic, part human — with the raw timbre of acoustic cello at its heart.
This collision of classical lament with modern sound design mirrors the film itself: grief transformed into rebellion, beauty colliding with rage.
✍️ The Spoken Word
The film’s poetry, written and performed by Sarnia de la Maré (iServalan), weaves images of corruption, violence, and sorrow:
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“The earth learned the tune of a reckoning fugue”
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“The rape of God’s children made death taste better than living”
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“Her rage in hand, brave anger like a man’s, she walked the earth”
These words sit not as background, but as the pulse of the film — a prophetic voice that names what has been silenced.
🌑 The Birth of a Myth
From this landscape of ruin emerges Adom — not a saviour in white robes, but a figure of acid rain, tar, and wildfire. She is not born into peace, but into fury. Her mantra is simple:
Resist. Disrupt. Persist.
Adom is both heroine and warning, a feminist icon forged from violence who embodies the rage of the oppressed. She is not meek, nor merciful. She rises so that others may rise.
📚 A Place in Film & Art History
The Birth of Adom belongs to the lineage of feminist experimental cinema: the surreal montage of Maya Deren, the political urgency of 1970s animation, and the glitchy futurism of cyberpunk.
But it also speaks to cultural history:
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The drugged complacency echoes both colonial exploitation (opium, sedation) and contemporary pharmaceutical anxieties.
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The uprising reflects the cycles of protest and suppression across modern democracies.
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The creation of Adom foreshadows the archetypes later explored in The Book of Immersion.
It is both myth and manifesto, a cinematic prayer for rebellion.
🌍 Why It Still Matters
In a world still wrestling with authoritarianism, surveillance, and the politics of sedation, The Birth of Adom reads less like a relic and more like a prophecy. It reminds us of the dangers of passivity and the necessity of anger.
Anger, here, is not destruction for its own sake — it is the only energy powerful enough to birth change.
🔗 Watch & Listen
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