Anaphylaxis is a 2009 British art house feature film written and directed by Ayman Mokhtar and starring Guy Defferary, Katia Winter, Jenna Brook and Frazer Douglas.
Completed in Autumn 2009, the first public screening (World Premiere) was at the 33rd São Paulo International Film Festival (Official Selection) in October/November 2009.
A successful doctor, content with life, develops a strange illness – anaphylaxis, a severe allergy to human skin.
In a prosodic cinematic style, shots in Anaphylaxis come together according to defined shot-length rules in order to compose durational patterns (rhythmic units).
The shots in these rhythmic units mimic in their length pattern some of the known metrical feet of poetry such as iamb (short-long), anapest (short-short-long) and trochee (long-short).
Anaphylaxis visually expresses its entire narrative in this prosodic cinematic style, exploiting the inherent rhythmic quality of film as a time-dependent medium.