Edgar Oliver and Elisa Matula Star in LOVE IS BLACK WATER, Premiering at Dixon Place, 5/2

Dixon Place presents the premiere of LOVE IS BLACK WATER, a new film written and directed by Sean Edward Lewis, on Thursday, May 2 at 10:00pm. Tickets are available for $15 at the door $10 senior/student $12 pre-sale at dixonplace.org. Dixon Place Lounge is open before, during, and after the show. Proceeds directly support Dixon Place's artists and mission.

This Pandora's Box dream narrative follows a young beauty caught in limbo as she becomes entangled with a pair of aimless step-brothers paying the ultimate price. A death dream set in old Brooklyn in an abandoned storefront on the east river. A psycho-sexual lament about the snuffing out of beauty.

Starring the stunning Elisa Matula as Christol, with Edgar Oliver as detective Solomon. Written & directed by Sean Edward Lewis. Sound by Leon Rothenberg. Edited by Daniel Hilsinger. Director of Photography Hanna Husberg. Original Score by Michael King and Eli Mattern. featuring Seth Powers, Sean Edward Lewis, John Morena, Robert Petrullo, John Piacquadio, Colm Dee, and Danny Culmone.
Art Credit: Danny Jock.

Sean Edward Lewis- writer/actor/director founder Brooklyn based LILAC CO. works: Just Another Cowboy Lost in Steinland; Project Whitman; Bazaar Godard; Death Series Wun:Sexton Says Sum; Confessions of Zorro and Diamond; Baldwin Soup Kitchen; (HH)Hamlethouse; Cop Piece; Undercover Mime; Sandypaul; Dee Dee Is Pregnant; Macbeth Family Reconciliation Project; Jinx; Drusi Is Coming; Drusi Dreamed a Tiger.other work includes: Whitney Biennial 2010 "5 Songs"Martin Kersels,dir.Travis Preston. Prelude Festival 2010,Temporary Distortion,dir.Kenneth Collins;2011 Culturbot,dir.AndyHoriwitz.He has curated selections of new work in Los Angeles and at The Eagle Theater with Janie Geiser and Lewis Khalr and is frequent collaborator with Enrique Pardo of Pantheatre, Paris. He went to Calarts and grew up in the suburbs of Los Angeles moving to NYC in 2005.