Elephants Dream (2006) (V)

Director:

Bassam Kurdali

Writers:

Pepijn Zwanenberg (screenplay)
Andreas Goralczyk (original concept) (scenario) ...

Release Date:

4 May 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Short | Fantasy | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Emo and Proog are two men exploring a strange industrial world of the future.

Plot Keywords:

Machine | Face Slap | Open Source | Experimental Film | Surrealism

Cast

Cas Jansen	...	Emo (voice)
Tygo Gernandt	...	Proog (voice)

Also Known As:

Machina (Netherlands) (working title)

Runtime:

9 min | Netherlands:11 min | 11 min (including credits) | 11 min (DVD version) | Argentina:11 min

Country:

Netherlands

Language:

English

Color:

Color (HDCAM) | Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Company:

Blender Foundation

Trivia:

This movie was made following the process of Open Source Software and was released under a Creative Commons Attribute 2.5 license.

Quotes:

Proog: Emo, why? Emo... why? Why can't you see the beauty of this place? The-the way it works? How... how perfect it is?
Emo: No, Proog. I don't see. I don't see because there's nothing there. And why should I trust my life to something that isn't there?

Visually impressive, Story disappointing

Have just downloaded Elephants Dream, the first open source project ever made, a year of work and a lot of talk on the net about it. So why is the story completely pointless?? forgive me if I'm missing some philosophical meaning (I doubt it) but no jokes, no insight into the characters, no explanation of where they are or what they're doing there in this big machine, no nothing except a bunch of 3D animation put together. It's visually very impressive and obviously a great deal of work has gone into this project, but without any story it fails to entertain me. If it took a year to make this piece of film, didn't the creators stop to think about the basic elements of what makes a movie? even a short? Am quite disappointed.