WEBVTT License: CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Author: Silvia Pfeiffer 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.000 The orange open movie project presents 2 00:00:05.010 --> 00:00:12.000 Introductory titles are showing on the background of a water pool with fishes swimming and mechanical objects lying on a stone floor. 3 00:00:12.010 --> 00:00:14.800 elephants dream 4 00:00:26.100 --> 00:00:28.206 Two people stand on a small bridge. 5 00:00:30.010 --> 00:00:40.000 The old man, Proog, shoves the younger and less experienced Emo on the ground to save him from being mowed down by a barrage of jack plugs that whir back and forth between the two massive switch-board-like walls. 6 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:47.000 The plugs are oblivious of the two, endlessly channeling streams of bizarre sounds and data. 7 00:00:48.494 --> 00:00:51.994 Emo sits on the bridge and checks his limbs. 8 00:01:09.150 --> 00:01:16.030 After the squealing plugs move on, Proog makes sure that Emo is unharmed and urges him onwards through a crack in one of the plug-walls. 9 00:01:18.050 --> 00:01:24.000 They walk through the narrow hall into a massive room that fades away into blackness on all sides. 10 00:01:24.050 --> 00:01:34.200 Only one path is visible, suspended in mid-air that runs between thousands of dangling electric cables on which sit crowds of robin-like robotic birds. 11 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:40.000 As Proog and Emo enter the room, the birds begin to wake up and notice them. 12 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:50.000 Realizing the danger, Proog grabs Emo by the arm. 13 00:01:50.050 --> 00:02:00.000 They run along the increasingly bizarre path as the birds begin to swarm. 14 00:02:00.050 --> 00:02:11.000 All sound is blocked out by the birds which are making the same noises as the jack-plugs, garbled screaming and obscure sentences and static. 15 00:02:12.600 --> 00:02:17.000 The path dead-ends, stopping in the middle of no-where above the infinite drop. 16 00:02:17.600 --> 00:02:22.000 Proog turns around as the birds reach them and begin to dive-bomb at them. 17 00:02:22.600 --> 00:02:28.000 At the last moment, Proog takes out an old candlestick phone and the birds dive into the speaker piece. 18 00:02:28.600 --> 00:02:31.000 The screen cuts to black. 19 00:02:31.600 --> 00:02:38.000 In the next scene, Proog stands at one end of a room, suspiciously watching what is probably the same candlestick phone, which is ringing. 20 00:02:38.500 --> 00:02:41.000 Emo watches from the other side of the room. 21 00:02:41.500 --> 00:02:43.000 The phone continues to ring. 22 00:02:43.500 --> 00:02:48.000 After a while Emo approaches it to answer it, but Proog slaps his hand away. 23 00:02:57.972 --> 00:02:59.100 Proog takes the ear-piece off the hook. 24 00:03:13.500 --> 00:03:18.054 The phone speaker revealed a mass of clawed, fleshy polyps which scream and gibber obscenely. 25 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:33.000 There is a solemn silence as Emo looks around the room and the technical objects therein. 26 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:44.000 Emo laughs disbelievingly and Proog walks away. 27 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:54.000 In the next scene, the two enter another massive black room. 28 00:03:54.500 --> 00:04:04.000 There is no path, the entry platform is the only structure that seems to be there except for another exit, lit distantly at the far side. 29 00:04:04.500 --> 00:04:14.000 Proog takes a step forward into the void, and his feet are suddenly caught by giant typewriter arms that rocket up out of the blackness to catch his feet as he dances across mid-air. 30 00:04:14.500 --> 00:04:22.000 Emo follows Proog with somewhat less enthusiasm as the older man leads the way. 31 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:58.000 They reach the end of the room and go through a hall into a small compartment. 32 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:06.000 Proog presses a button, and the door shuts. 33 00:05:06.500 --> 00:05:09.000 It is an elevator. 34 00:05:09.500 --> 00:05:24.000 The elevator lurches suddenly as it is grabbed by a giant mechanical arm and thrown upwards, rushing up through an ever-widening tunnel. 35 00:05:26.500 --> 00:05:32.000 When it begins to slow down, another arm grabs the capsule and throws it even further up. 36 00:05:32.500 --> 00:05:40.000 As it moves up, the walls unlock and fall away, leaving only the floor with the two on it, rushing higher and higher. 37 00:05:54.500 --> 00:05:59.000 They exit the tunnel into a black sky and the platform reaches the peak of its arc. 38 00:06:19.500 --> 00:06:26.000 The elevator begins to drop down another shaft, coming to rest as it slams into the floor of another room and bringing the two to a level stop. 39 00:06:26.500 --> 00:06:28.000 A camera flashes. 40 00:06:28.010 --> 00:06:34.000 They are in a large, dingy room filled with strange, generator-like devices and dotted with boxy holographic projectors. 41 00:06:34.500 --> 00:06:38.000 One of them is projecting a portion of wall with a door in it right beside them. 42 00:06:38.500 --> 00:06:40.000 The door seems harmless enough. 43 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:45.100 From behind the door comes light music. 44 00:06:56.000 --> 00:07:00.100 Proog presses a button on his cane, which changes the holograph to another wall. 45 00:07:05.100 --> 00:07:11.000 Proog finishes the wall, and boxes them into a Safe Room, out of the view of anything outside. 46 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:42.500 Proog slaps him, trying to bring him to his senses. 47 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:52.000 Emo storms away down the length of the room towards a wall he apparently cannot see and the wall begins to move, extending the length of the room. 48 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:07.000 The walls begin to discolour and mechanical roots start tearing through the walls to his left. 49 00:08:07.010 --> 00:08:09.000 The roots move forwards toward Proog. 50 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:31.000 The rest of the safety wall crumples away as a pair of massive hands heave out of the ground and begin to attack. 51 00:08:31.010 --> 00:08:37.000 Proog is knocked down by the shockwave, while Emo turns and begins to walk away, waving his finger around his temple in the 'crazy' sign. 52 00:08:37.010 --> 00:08:44.000 In a last effort, Proog extricates himself from the tentacle roots, and cracks Emo over the back of the head with his cane. 53 00:08:44.500 --> 00:08:51.000 As Emo collapses, everything falls away, and Proog and Emo are left in one tiny patch of light in the middle of blackness. 54 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:20.000 The scene fades to black while panning over a pile of tentacle roots lying on the ground. 55 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:28.000 Credits begin: 56 00:09:28.500 --> 00:09:35.000 Orange Open Movie Team Director: Bassum Kurdali Art Director: Andreas Goralczyk 57 00:09:35.500 --> 00:09:39.000 Music and Sound Design: Jan Morgenstern 58 00:09:39.500 --> 00:09:44.000 Emo: Cas Jansen Proog: Tygo Gernandt 59 00:09:44.500 --> 00:09:50.000 Screenplay: Pepijn Zwanenberg Original Concept & Scenario: Andreas Goralczyk, Bassam Kurdali, Ton Roosendaal 60 00:09:50.500 --> 00:10:24.000 More people for Additional Artwork and Animation Texture Photography Software Development 3D Modelling, Animation, Rendering, Compiling Software Special Thanks to Open Source Projects Rendering Services Provided Hardware Sponsored Casting Sound FX, Foley, Dialogue Editing, Audio Mix and Post Voice Recording HDCam conversion Netherlands Media Art Institute Staff Blender Foundation Staff 61 00:10:24.500 --> 00:10:30.000 Many Thanks to our Donation and DVD sponsors 62 00:10:30.500 --> 00:10:47.000 Elephants Dream has been realised with financial support from The Netherlands Film Fund Mondriaan Foundation VSBfonds Uni-Verse / EU Sixth Framework Programme 63 00:10:47.500 --> 00:10:53.000 Produced By Ton Roosendaal Copyright 2006 Netherlands Media Art Institute / Montevideo Blender Foundation