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Structure:
 Six minute B&W film, 35mm and 16mm.  Kodak 5222/7222 and (perhaps) Kodak 7266.
 Motivated by 1960s German existential avant garde films. 
 Eight scenes x 45 seconds per scene.

 THEME/STYLE  Cataclysm = Katastrophe (ties film to Alpha Macro)
 THEME/STYLE  industrial
 THEME/STYLE  stylization
 THEME/STYLE  liminal
 THEME/STYLE  existential
 THEME/STYLE  expressionistic

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DIALOG : 
FROM Mitchum movie "Out Of The Past" (1947)
She walked in out of the sun
I could look at the Relics (as a tourist).

DIALOG
Why are you here?
I'm here to see the relics.
Why are you realliny here?
I no longer have ideas.  Only memories.

DIALOG
_The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeous_
 "Maybe we were denounced"
 "My childhood was tres tragic"
  a low bell sounds, rings continually during one segment
  Do you recognize me?  How can I fail to?
_BlowUp_
Standing in windy forest ... with high wind noise
_La Notte_
I lost everything once.
Playing what game?
_The Sleepwalkers_
Due to his evident lack of comprehension for old values I cannot fully trust him.
Eduard von Bertrand   
Old values? Symbols of the past.  The honor code of the nobility.  The Lutheran Church.
Join an obscure religous sect.

CHARACTER  Rainer  (M)
CHARACTER  Nico    (F)
CHARACTER  Ida     (F)
CHARACTER  Felix   (M)
CHARACTER  
CHARACTER  
SHOT       Fast-moving clouds using orange filter.
SHOT       Actors back-lit, oil-covered
SHOT       
SHOT       
SOUND      Sound of bell tolling slowly continuously
SOUND  
SOUND  
TRANSITION Dancing
TRANSITION 
TRANSITION 
TRANSITION 
MUSIC      youtube.com/watch?v=SBd34Lr09hc
MUSIC      youtube.com/watch?v=Hn9Nx-Y61yg The Best of German 60's songs  Ultimate Spinach - Behold & See 1968 (Full Album) 
MUSIC      The Jazz Butcher - Racheland   youtube.com/watch?v=QKUS_c8-pl0
MUSIC      Dream Wife - Hasta La Vista    youtube.com/watch?v=_JFdsRVjjt4&list=RDMM&index=3
MUSIC      The Jazz Butcher ... other things
MUSIC 
PROP       Binoculars
PROP       Telephone, black
PROP       Rope 2.5" 25'
PROP       Car - corvette
PROP       Bell
PROP        
LOCATION   Water 'bridge' N of Airport on bike trail
LOCATION   RR tracks / Nico tied-up (see above)
LOCATION   Blackhawk & F, Sioux Falls, red industrial stuff
LOCATION   Green hill, N of Walmart / Sioux Falls SDak
LOCATION   Transformers    (Jerry's Electric / 23170 471st Ave, Colman, SD 57017 (800) 843-9834
LOCATION   Water works     (N of FSD airport, S of Hwy38/N60th St / Sioux Falls SDak)
LOCATION   Auto lot lights (26th Street, W of i29 / Sioux Falls SDak)
LOCATION   Office          (102 N Krohn Place, #216 / Sioux Falls SDak)
           Game on 4x8 plywood
LOCATION   Dirt Mounds, S side of Russel Street, park / there is a beast that 
LOCATION   
LOCATION   

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*** CAFE SCENE (she walked out of the sun)
    Rainer
    Nico
*** Electrical Transformers 
    Rainer : Did you know that Nico is here?
    Ida    : Yes.  She's been here since the deluge.  When did you arrive?
    Rainer : Last week. 
*** Scene OFFICE with 'blackboard'
*** Scene OFFICE with GAME
*** NICO is tied-up near (nut not on) railroad tracks.
    Nico   :  Rainer, untie me!
    Rainer :  Nico.  What happened?  
    Nico   :  Felix.  He tied me up here.
    Rainer :  Against your will?
    Nico   :  yes.  Untie me!
    Rainer :  That's a crime.  To tie someone up against their will.
    Nico   :  Of course!
    Rainer :  He can be arrested.
    Nico   :  No.  I don't want him arrested.
    Rainer :  Why did he do it?
    Nico   :  He said he would.  He was going to leave me here until the 5:05 passed by.
    Rainer :  We must report this. 
    Nico   :  No.  He knows things.  
    Rainer :  Stay away from Felix. 
    Nico   :  i shall.  I shall stay away from him.
    Rainer :  Do you want me to ... to talk to him?
    Nico   :  No.  Yes.  Talk to him, Rainer.

*** Ida    :  Did you tie-up Nico?
    Felix  :  Well.  Its complicated. 
    Ida    :  Rainer found her tied-up by the railroad tracks.
    Felix  :  I plan to move.  Before the cataclyxm. 
    Ida    :  Where will you go?
    Felix  :  I'm not sure.  Lubeck?  Possibly Nuveau York.
    Ida    :  Berlin is the seat of court.

*** All characters walking down a road.

Do you know the rules of the game?
Yes
Do you have a second in case you cannot complete the game?
yes.  
Does she know the rules?
I know the rules.
Very well.
The game commences ... now.
A bell is tolled.

*** Ida reads a letter

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Michelangelo Antonioni (1912–2007)
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(1960)  L'Avventura            Rome | Aeolian Islands | Sicily
        CINE : Aldo Scavarda
        Gabriele Ferzetti   Monica Vitti 
        Lea Massari
(1961)  La Notte               	1.85 : 1 
        CINE : Gianni Di Venanzo
        Marcello Mastroianni  Jeanne Moreau  (1928–2017)
        Monica Vitti          Bernhard Wicki (1919-2000)
        la stagione (The Season)
        The Sleepwalkers by Broch (1930-32)
        Too much saxophone
(1962)  L'Eclisse              Rome and Verona
        CINE : Gianni Di Venanzo
        Alain Delon         Monica Vitti
        Francisco Rabal     Lilla Brignone      Louis Seigner
(1964)  Il Deserto Rosso       
        Richard Harris     Monica Viti
(1966)  Blowup                 
    
(2004)  Eros                   Capalbio (Tuscany)
        aka The Dangerous Thread of Things aka  Il filo pericoloso delle cose 
        LOCATIONS : Natural Park of Maremma and the Lake Turano.  Budget =  25 bil liras
        cine : Marco Pontecorvo
        Christopher Buchholz as Christopher
        Regina Nemni as Cloe
        Luisa Ranieri as The Girl / Linda
        Cecilia Luci as Girl by the Cascade
        Karima Machehour as Girl by the Cascade