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Elephants Dream
Sign in to save2006 computer animated short film directed by Bassam Kurdali
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5.8Elephants Dream is the story of two strange characters exploring a capricious and seemingly infinite machine. The elder, Proog, acts as a tour-guide and protector, happily showing off the sights and dangers of the machine to his initially curious but increasingly skeptical protege Emo. As their journey unfolds we discover signs that the machine is not all Proog thinks it is, and his guiding takes on a more desperate aspect. Elephants Dream is a story about communication and fiction, made purposefully open-ended as the world’s first 3D animated “Open movie”. The film itself is released under the Creative Commons license, along with the entirety of the production files used to make it (roughly 7 Gigabytes of data). The software used to make the movie is the free/open source animation suite Blender along with other open source software, thus allowing the movie to be remade, remixed and re-purposed with only a computer and the data on the DVD or download.
Cast
- Tygo Gernandt as Proog (voice)
- Cas Jansen as Emo (voice)
Themes
- future
- dreams
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Bassam Kurdali
- Screenplay by
- Pepijn Zwanenberg
- Story by
- Andreas Goralczyk, Bassam Kurdali, Ton Roosendaal
- Produced by
- Ton Roosendaal
- Starring
- Cas Jansen , Tygo Gernandt
- Music by
- Jan Morgenstern
- Animation by
- Toni Alatalo, Andreas Goralczyk, Matt Ebb, Bastian Salmela, Lee Salvemini, Enrico Valenza, Roland Hess, Robert Ives, Joeri Kassenaar
- Production companies
- Blender Foundation , Netherlands Institute for Media Art / Montevideo TBA, The Orange Open Movie Project
- Distributed by
- Blender Foundation
- Release date
- 24 March 2006 ( 2006-03-24 )
- Running time
- 9 minutes
- Country
- Netherlands
- Language
- English
- Budget
- €120,000
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Encyclopedic overview
Elephants Dream (code-named Project Orange during production and originally titled Machina) is a 2006 Dutch animated science fiction fantasy experimental short film produced by Blender Foundation using, almost exclusively, free and open-source software. The film is English-language and includes subtitles in over 30 languages.
Plot
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Elephants Dream” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.