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SHOOTING OCTOBER 10 and 11, 2026 - Saturday and Sunday.
Structure:
Eight minute 35mm & 16mm, Kodak double-X asa250 5222/7222 and (perhaps) Kodak Verita 200D 5206.
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 Robert Mitchum movie "Out Of The Past" (1947) (IMDB)
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 really 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 Rainy (M)
CHARACTER Kalle - telegraph (M)
CHARACTER Sigri (F)
CHARACTER Nico (F)
CHARACTER Ida (F)
CHARACTER Felix (M)
SHOT Fast-moving clouds using orange filter.
SHOT Actors back-lit, oil-covered
SHOT
SHOT
SOUND Sound of bell tolling slowly continuously
SOUND IBM Selectric typewriter
SOUND
TRANSITION Dancing
TRANSITION Trees in wind
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 Typewriter - IBM Sectric
PROP Rope 2.5" 25'
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
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