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The A Stab At Heaven monograph by Mark de Paola coincides with Mark de Paola and Ema McKie's forthcoming feature film A Stab At Heaven. A Stab At Heaven tells the true story of Ema McKie; when she was 18 years old, she drove across the country in order to join her recently deceased fiance. Grappling with grief, she discovers her will to live.
This fine art photography monograph features de Paola's photographs of Ema McKie during the making of the motion picture, as well as handwritten excerpts from Ema's stream of consciousness writing in the film.
The A Stab At Heaven book plunges you into Ema's internal journey rendered through de Paola's emotional lens, as if a personal diary and window into the subconscious. Pages of both color and black and white portraits and abstractions propel the viewer from traditional white border pages into the final section titled The Silent House, where images and words overlap in an interplay of scale and narrative.
De Paola and McKie have been longtime artistic collaborators having released a section of the Five Years and Sixty Seconds (2021) book together, created a limited edition print portfolio to collectors (2022), and worked on various other artistic endeavors together. From the moment that the film A Stab At Heaven came to be, they both knew that this story would evolve into various mediums including this very book, as well as forthcoming exhibitions. This brilliant new book is an extension of the motion picture, and a tangible object as if poured from the screen and soul.
This book is printed by Brilliant with hard covers, measuring 9x12 inches, and is encapsulated in 104 pages in a very limited first edition run.
A STAB AT HEAVEN *BOOK ONLY* ($80.00)
First Edition
Hardbound
9x12 Inches
104 Pages
A STAB AT HEAVEN BOOK *SPECIAL EDITION* ($800.00)
Edition of 15
The special edition includes:
1 x copy of the A Stab At Heaven monograph *signed by Mark & Ema*
1 x 9x12 inch limited edition print of the cover image(signed, dated, and numbered by Mark de Paola)
1 x 8.5x11 inch printed excerpt of McKie's "Girls are little angels..." prose, signed by Ema McKie
A STAB AT HEAVEN BOOK TEAM
Photographs by Mark de Paola
Photographs of Ema McKie
Words by Ema McKie
Printed by Brilliant in Exton, PA
Designed by Henrique Penha
Produced by dePAOLA Pictures
Editor Sage Backstrom
A STAB AT HEAVEN MOTION PICTURE TEAM (Coming Soon)
Directed by Mark de Paola
Written by Ema McKie & Mark de Paola
Starring Ema McKie
Presented by Four Line Media
Executive Producer David Kevin Weaver
Producer Sage Backstrom
An ASAHFILM Production
https://www.astabatheavenfilm.com/
A special thank you to our A Stab At Heaven book patrons Javier and Anne-Marie Arze, John Baruh, Stephen Butzlaff, Will Butzlaff, Dr. Ronald Hall, Arvian Heidir, Mark Nachmias, Chips Stewart, Juan Carlos Torres, Henry Tran, Karen Tran, Daphne Tran, Mabel Tran, and J Wales Art.