Ymi

2004, 90 min.

Ymi (2004)
Awards

2004
Audience Choice Abbot Award at the Other Venice Film Festival
Winner

Production

Director Marek Probosz
Screenplay Marek Probosz
Cinematography Peter Pilafian, Conrad Hunziker
Music Panka Kuneva, Taylor Uhler
Art Director Brian O’hara
Producer Paul Koslo, Marek Probosz
Cast
Roman Romanski Marek Probosz
Digger Owen Williams
Noisy Cy Carter
DVD Andrew Mariano Jr.
Cal William Smith
John R. Lee Ermey
Candy Jesselynn Desmond
Glenn Peter Brown
Digger’s Father Jeff Conaway
Story

Los Angeles. A joy ride in a stolen vehicle that has gone way out of control. As three teens, Digger (Owen Williams), Noisy (Cy Carter), and DVD (Andrew Mariano Jr.) each sworn to a suicide pact they think will make them legendary, venture out on the last night of their lives. They are the 18 year-old students of Roman Romanski (Marek Probosz) whose gorgeous wife has been raped and murdered before him, and the suspects are as elusive as the destinies of these young men.

Romanski’s quest to understand the reason behind so much joy gone awry, self-loathing and disarray, his search for redemption in his students, and in himself, leads to a wounded angel, Nevermore (Mageina Tovah), a young woman whose heart remains pure. Between the nihilism of Albert Camus, and the mysterious reveries of Edgar Allen Poe, Romanski’s final poetic trajectory catapults him into a vivid dawn.