by Loren Coleman ©2012
People wear raincoats even when its not raining. It's dreary. Disease is everywhere. Fashion hasn't changed. There are no rayguns; there's just old-fashioned metal handguns. People still use midcentury modern Navy chairs in lab cafes. Transport units are dirty. It's another "Ridley Scott Presents" view of our future.
Luke Scott's melodrama set in the year 2042 is a 20 minute film that will have you thinking long after it is finished. Loom is being disseminated for free throughout the electronic world.
There is an interesting feeling in the word, "disseminating," and that's why I used it. Just as the engineers in Prometheus seed the Earth with genetic material, you get the sense, as you are watching this film, that some of these images are being seeded.
The film is being used as a way to showcase a new technology. Luke Scott in cooperation with RED Camera presents Loom, "a film shot completely in 4K format. The film was originally intended to help showcase the prototype REDray 3D laser player. The film was constructed for 3D, the film needed to push the limits of the cameras exposure sensitivity and color range and 4K projection. Visually the film is unmatched to date in it's use of RED's new technology."
It's 4K glory can be seen via this incredibly large web version. Also here's a Higher Res version
The film is shown completely in the HD version posted above. (People at work and youngsters: It has a couple gross scenes of engineered raw meat, which I found more disturbing that the incidental flashes of nudity because the young woman was not completely dressed.)
(Thanks for the tip from P.H.)
P.S. It appears, by random and by coincidence, the first time I played Loom, immediately after the credits, I was shown a trailer for Branded (written and directed by Jamie Bradshaw and Aleksandr Dulerayn). Opening September 7th, Branded is about "unlocking the conspiracy" and seeing what is unseen. It is a remarkable trailer foretelling what might be a synchromystic hit.
Below are two different Branded trailers,
the first in Russian and the following one in English.
Branded looks fascinating. It's obvious they've been looking at all the conspiracy videos on the internet and fused it with They Live/H.P. Lovecraft & Videodrome.
ReplyDeleteI thought of Lovecraft too. What was that story called? I remember the premise just not the name.
ReplyDeleteI am fascinated by the possibility of alternate dimensions.
Shades of "They Live" in Branded.
ReplyDeleteI love those chairs. I bought some like them in Kmart a few years ago.
ReplyDeleteEach time I see a trailer for branded I think of Philip K. Dick's "Faith of our Fathers", in which a man who believes he has been slipped a hallucinogenic that causes him to see twisted horrors discovers that he has actually been given an anti-hallucinogenic.
Alien abductees are gonna be startled when they see this.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I think this film has a veil undertone on the mythos of hybridization.