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Strange Factories
'Strange Factories' is a living feature film; a unique and original project that fuses cinema with a dreamlike,
immersive environment to create an experience like no other. The film will be toured and presented within
a live, site specific event that explores the earliest traditions of cinema and film via the touring traditions of
Phantasmagoria and theatric arcana.
I was originally invited into the project to do the storyboarding but with the power of this unusual script, which to me has a life of its own, I found myself getting more and more immersed into this project. I became part of the core Creative Team, involved in production design and am currently editing the film.
I am very attached to the story, it haunts me (in a good way) and it stirred something in me as I believe will especially stir something in those who create.
The Story:
Victor, a writer, haunted by an idea for a new story hunts for four refugee performers of a theatre destroyed in a mysterious fire.
He locates his friends in a remote, pagan settlement founded by Stronheim; owner of a Strange Factory hidden deep in the local countryside that emits an infamous Hum.
Victor enters into a dangerous pact when a vow is made to re-build their theatre if the story is completed in time for it to be performed at the village festival, where bizarre rituals are enacted by the Villagers under the influence of a hallucinogenic effluence siphoned out of the Strange Factory.
Victor's imagination and the fragmented memories of his friends collide in a violent fiction that not everyone can survive.
immersive environment to create an experience like no other. The film will be toured and presented within
a live, site specific event that explores the earliest traditions of cinema and film via the touring traditions of
Phantasmagoria and theatric arcana.
I was originally invited into the project to do the storyboarding but with the power of this unusual script, which to me has a life of its own, I found myself getting more and more immersed into this project. I became part of the core Creative Team, involved in production design and am currently editing the film.
I am very attached to the story, it haunts me (in a good way) and it stirred something in me as I believe will especially stir something in those who create.
The Story:
Victor, a writer, haunted by an idea for a new story hunts for four refugee performers of a theatre destroyed in a mysterious fire.
He locates his friends in a remote, pagan settlement founded by Stronheim; owner of a Strange Factory hidden deep in the local countryside that emits an infamous Hum.
Victor enters into a dangerous pact when a vow is made to re-build their theatre if the story is completed in time for it to be performed at the village festival, where bizarre rituals are enacted by the Villagers under the influence of a hallucinogenic effluence siphoned out of the Strange Factory.
Victor's imagination and the fragmented memories of his friends collide in a violent fiction that not everyone can survive.