Seth et Holth
Released in September 29, 1993 this little-known film, best noted for featuring Japanese guitarist hide early on in his career, and lesser known artist TUSK. The film is 43 minutes long and featured a tragic plot of two men from the world of Nun who communicate through their blood.
Credits
Planning and Basic Conception hide and TUSK
Music Composition hide
Lyrics & Vocals, TUSK
Producer/Script Hideaki Utsumi (Fool's Mate)
Co Producer Takahiro Ishii (Fool's Mate)
Starring
hide as Seth
Tusk as Holth
Names
Seth is an Egyptian god. Also Holth may be Horus, if pronounced as Japanese would but with wrong romanization. Using foreign, "exotic" mythologies is common in japanese pop-culture.
Plot
In the sphere of Athum there once lived two beautiful angels by the names of Seth and Holth. Seth was the gentle one of the two: the kind one, the anxious one, the precious jewel; Holth was the strong one of them: the determined, the bold one. They lived in peace in the sphere of Athum for eternity, since there is no time, nor age, nor decay in this world. The waters flow uphill and time is irrelevant. Athum taketh all and creates everything, for eternity. The angels Seth and Holth lived there undisturbed forever. They made love by their eyes, tasting their tears, they spoke to each other by their blood. They slept in Athum's womb not knowing of any evil, plight or fear. No worry, no pain ever harmed them... and they could have gone on like thus forever, if not one day bold Holth had started to ask questions... questions about other worlds, other beings; questions about life and death.
He tried to force Athum to tell him but instead for an answer the angels Seth and Holth were banished to planet earth, thrown into the harshness of light, noise and madness. They woke up from their eternal dream to find themselves reborn to a world full of questions, hectic and evil. Not knowing what to do, only trying to get home again, home to Athum, the womb, the mother of it all, home to peace, where the waters are flowing uphill and where time has no meaning.
Despair and madness. Rage and sadness. Tell me, gentle Seth... tell me the meaning of it all, tell me the meaning of human life and strain... "Somewhere in this void there must be the key to all our questions. We have been thrown deep... so deep into this place... Let time and everything like it disappear into nothingness. A maze full of transity and no one to console us. People who don't believe in anything anymore and go more crazy by the hour. Oh please tell us someone what we want to know! Give us the solutions! Give us Eternity! While time is flying by we can only utilize this world's strongest weapon... love... But cruelty has come to our lives, the lights from this world will die... now!"
Hunted down by humans who did not understand, nor ever loved, Seth and Holth were sacrificed and murdered. Seeing their plight in the human world Athum pitied them and allowed them to return home... but home was not the same anymore. They had seen too much, heard too much, felt too much in the human world. They lost their innocence and their faith, they could ignore the questions no longer...
Why? Tell me why? But Athum could not answer and so Athum, the womb that creates everything and taketh everything, turned back to nothingness... For eternity. For life. Forever.
