An Alternative Domain Short Film
Wrote, directed, edited, and effected in 48hrs.
Wrote, directed, edited, and effected in 48hrs.
man walks in room with knife. group of four friends lounging vivaciously, as if romantically lamenting.Cocks gun. They're on a farm.
A For God's sake dig up some new metaphors.
B The place is shifting no matter what.
C A bad worker always blames his tools.
B Automatic writing is the lack of an individual agent.
A Ya, you need to get back into the incubator.
over to DE.
D Inseparable variations forge a new path for humanity.
E On frontiers between two agencies, causal connections occur from resemblances that don't give objectiveness... (ABC try harder aesthetically)
D The mental apparatus is compromised in a contract that is linguistically arbitrary
AB slap hands in background, they come into focus...
C And the rest of the relevant facts, we have stored in a safety deposit box.
A Good. Entanglement is not localized. The substance that once grounded an
1
object in reality is losing adequation to the alchemy of a transformative machine.
B Technology has mass produced false identities divorced from reality. Dividing a false copy exponentially, reproduction does not discriminate and has no empathy.
C The time has come to walk around in a shirt!
B begins opens mouth to talk, but does double take at what C said, and then continues-
B Authority fosters deception in the form of search engines,our world is more adequately described in forms of control.
back to DE
D Look at those guys, do you think they know that they're also performers in this parody?
E And that there can't be nudity!
D What do you think they're working on? I heard someone say something about digitizing DNA..
E So you think they're having a moral debate?
D No. I think C is a technologically produced baby.
C stands up in background and walks forward into focus
D Hi.
C Hey
2
sits down
E ya, Hi. Ok- so what? what's your favorite object?
D hmm -i guess id have to say naming objects.
E so which naming objects, which which naming-
D oh god, i dont know Id have to say the ones that require us to improve our aim, with thrice times the speed and energy.
AB come into focus. B screams to C-
B Come back here, I want to pick a bone.
C walks over, B pokes him in the side rib
B I want that one!
A resumes whatever he was saying to A. (B is listening to A but notices that C has left, and does this on the side which only dirupts the convo. for a second. And A resumes when B's done.)
A On- Online collectivism will cause a confusion of fiction. There's a rising primacy of the individual in the media-scape, where one can see a growing cultural relativism. Consequences of fragmentation are polarized as bits and bytes, opening a platform for the personal.
C Unspoken atrocities are cemented in the experiences that will always be different for everyone.
B Not for a transhuman.
3
C Riight.
A Are you not a transhuman?
C aa- again.
A Are you not a trans-
C Yes I'm transhuman.
B This is your chance.
C Wuh-
shakes head side to side (slow mo.)
C falls down, close up on his face. Opens his eyes..
C I need to work out. I need to work. Do i need to work out? My quadtrcepts? Copasthetic all you ridicualous ticks? or antispetics in the inter mix? Where am I?
A Paris, in-
B You're in Paris- in the twentieth century! Get up you wise man. If you would come, twenty-six cows would lie on the turf. Name object-
B points at object.
C gets up, and backs away slowly from the hovering group.
C Who am- I?
E You're the lost novel!
C I'm Ss sseewbearsoon-
4
hovering boys looking doofy and excited, as if romantically lamenting.
C What ok, what.
D What. ok. what.
D does symbolic gesture.
A What's your name? - Were you the first man to scratch your head?
D No. Satan wait. Wait- wait no.Satan was the first acrobat. Let me say that the first acrobat in the world was Lucifer, when he was tossed or thrown out of heaven and went tumbling down into the pit.
B Well i'd rather toss that one with a knife rather than a skillet spoon. The weapon, the weapon which my grandmother used against the English when they came up to visit the Fjord last spring.
E Hope you love it!
Transition: C alone, boys hovering together somewhere else. Their sounds are muddy. Ambient.
C What's up with all this noise!Oh Iknow, word has it that the fjord split off from an icerberg or a larger glacier.
A Did he just say something?
E Uhm, no no no. That definately broke off back when my grandmother was a glacier climber.
D Slow! Glaciously, glatially slow.
5
They all direct attention to C again as C is approaching them, but gets especially close to E
C Has anyone ever told you you're a spinster of magnificence?- but you also don't seem to care when your shield gets dirty. Some like to call it a shield but i like to call it, where am I, who am I, I like to call it a, I just have to find myself now, I like to call it an ecosystem of failed sporting events.
E your shield?
C Not my shield.
E No shield? That's a problem.
C Not my century, not my problem.
A man, this is turning into a lonely filibuster.
D takes demand
D Declare your mission!
C addresses him attentively
C They are deciding on a title for a text.
E The naming object?! The text is a naming object. C'mon-
D Who is they C-
A Weeeeeeeeeee, weeeeeeeeee. are.
DC both open their mouths to talk.
6
CD Oh/here
CD Oh/wait
CD Ok now/ go
CD ooh/stoop
E This title, what about this title C? What do you call this a- this naming object you have here, in your pocket?
C Dont worry. Don't worry. It safely deposited in my memory pocket.
D take me though.
C the key first, please.
E No keys. Let's go.
C The title. YES-
NODS head approvingly, at what he's just said
C -The title is the key that opens the door to the story. This is your chance.
E puuur chance?
D puurrrrrrr chance?
D rolls rrs
AB puuuurrrrr. puurrr. Ooh. Sew bear!
E what's sew bear.
7
C You don't know sew bear. Now I'm browned off.
D You think this is a comedy? ya you think so? DO you? Oh you do, yes you do, yes you DO. Ah-
B inerjects an incncsequential dispute
B Now looky here gentlemen. Im going to be presumptuous and begin speaking here- like a dutch uncle- this is looking like a bowl session. So if my hog doesnt roast in the round, Ill be gone to where the white fox runs and the warrace snorts. Mark my word.
D And cock your gun!
C We need to get vaccines! We need to get vaccines for the sinisters.
A Who are they? Are they a (pause) a band?
C No. We need vaccines- for- from the sinisters- from the sinisters.
A So the sinisters are- giving us vaccinations for their show?
C no, non , non no. This is your problem. We are getting vaccines- from- from the sinisters. Away from them. There is going to be a, in a, thats all i have so far.
A Oh.OH. Many a time I have heard of these here sinister -yet never have I seen one before though I have lain helpless in the deep sea of the western exiles with expired fish, body numb, and my mind gone from me.
8
D Ah, what did you do that for?
C OMG! Where's the safe deposit box?
B Enter-
A Omg Right. Right. Right. Where's the safe deposit box guys! AHHHH.
D Where's the whatevernessss-
A It's a secret project.
E Ya, we know. Digit- Digitiz
A no
E Digitiz
DE iiing DNA
Over to C (again catching conclusion of another/missed conversation)
C -we will hence forth designate thursdays for lounging vivaciously, as if lamenting romantically
B Whos THUR? I know the saints. THe football team. and the day. do you have a lisp? do i have a lisp? I dont have a lisp. but you, THURR- I don't know what that business is.
Back to ADE
A No. No. No- that's not it. At all. What-No.
Over to BC again. B makes face a face at C (as if disgusted)
9
B Dont real in the salmon, its expired! nope, take it away. it's stinky, no. to degrees, okay. no? take it away, take it back to the incubator. I don't know. what do we do with this salmon. This old, salmon. Somebody take it home. Please.
C Joins AB
C You're looking a little chroma.
B I just cant, I just cant stop visualizing these ridiculous idioms.
C - like bringing a knife to a gun fight.
B cocks shotgun.
B Ya. I mean what is this, what is this shotgun I've got here- it's not mine, I don't own this- this wasn't a gift, is it a gift? Is it loaded?
B is cocking shot gun, over and over, but doesn't have other function. DE rejoins ABC.
B What's going on, you guys know what's going on. C tell me, what's all this noise?
C This is a futuristic love story of feuding wartorn glaxies. These are perceptions, up against perceptions. This is my world view, pinned up against yours, and his, and his-
Everyone has guns again, excpet C who is waving a knife (guns are digitized/ knife is not. C is now holding physicaly knife, that he has picked up, to deomstrate.
B Yes. You see, perception is fundameCREDITS
YouTube
