Elephants Dream

2006 0h 11m EN

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5.8

MID

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5.6

IMDB

★5.8TMDB · 70★5.6IMDB · 1,287

AnimationScience Fiction

Synopsis

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Elephants 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.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Tygo Gernandt
Proog (voice)
Cas Jansen
Emo (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Bassam Kurdali
Writers: Pepijn Zwanenberg
Languages: English
Countries: Netherlands

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RUNTIME

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Tight 11-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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MONEY

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Shot for just $0.1M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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ERA

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Released 20 years ago.

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4 / 7

ERA

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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CAST

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Tygo Gernandt and Cas Jansen carry the top of the cast.

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0807840 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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7 / 7

WILD

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Only 70 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Bassam Kurdali directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Netherlands. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Tight 11-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
2Shot for just $0.1M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
3Released 20 years ago.
4Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
5Tygo Gernandt and Cas Jansen carry the top of the cast.
6IMDB entry: tt0807840 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
7Only 70 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.