The Antibody (2012)

The Antibody is a one-hour manifesto about suicide, death, and grief. It is both a personal history and a scream against fate. Written, shot, and edited by Christopher Lukas (and featuring only himself) it is made against a background of family suicides and Lukas's own battle against a variety of cancers over the past twenty years. The result of years of dealing with his own depression, his family's disposition to self-slaughter, and the film-maker's never-ending need to come to terms with being the lone survivor, the film is enhanced with lines of verse from Shakespeare and other poets.