Salvation Machine: A Mass of Abwoon Dominus

Roxy Cinema

Unfolding as a surreal procession through pastoral fields into a shadowed forest, where a ritualistic mass explores the gravitational pull of hierarchy and the dissolution of individuals into systems larger than themselves. The film centers on the enigmatic Salvation Machine—a cipher onto which the congregation projects obedience, meaning, and devotion. The congregants move not by coercion but by the inertia of participation, raising the question of whether free will can exist within pre-existing structures. The film resists resolution: the congregation does not escape but is absorbed, enacting a cycle of submission that oscillates between seduction and command.