Talk on Molly Benn's Blog 

The project is growing.

As we still have footages to plan in the north, the editing process has begun.

Here is a first (short) overview.  

filmstills / work in progress

filmstills / work in progress

filmstills / work in progress

There is this dream I sometimes have. 

I was looking out of the observation bay of a strange spacecraft that's size and design remains unseen to me.  

Down in the lunar landscape below a figure appears in a sleek space suit, white, semi-transparent, very lightweight and hooded.  It is very much unlike the big unwieldy suits that NASA astronauts wear. The suit does not seem like it would sufficiently protect the wearer from the environment of the moon, and he moves in a very fluid, natural way, as if the moons gravity is similar to the earths.

He walks among the small mounds and rocks of the landscape until he reaches a flat clear area and begins placing these small circular devices, about the size of your hand, onto the ground, creating a circle about 30 yards in diameter.

Then he carries a large cylinder into the center of the ring he has created, and shortly after he places it on the ground it begins to extend slowly into the air to about 20 feet.

After he steps outside of the ring he triggers some unseen device on the forearm of his suit. Suddenly lazars are emitted from the modules that have been placed around in the circle. The lazars slowly revolve around towards each other and when they intersect refract in different directions, creating a geodesic dome shaped web of beams, with the center cylinder at the apex of the structure.

The figure disappears from my view and I gaze out over the empty barren landscape. A feeling of loneliness and isolation comes over me, and I begin to wonder why am I here watching the figure do these things. I can not remember where I have come from or how I came here.

The figure then reappears with another device, a hose attached to a small generator, which he uses to spray over the lazar dome. When the liquid from the sprayer comes into contact with the lazar beams it solidifies into a black metal, forming the skeletal frame of the dome.  

He presses another button on the sprayer and begins spraying again. This time the sprayer releases a sort of silvery mist that spreads out in the same way over the structure, but this time it fills the triangular spaces between the frames and solidifies. After a few moments a concentrated plume of steam begins to spill from the top of the structure.

In that instant I was transported into the interior of the dome. Looking around the space appears much larger on the inside than I imagined it being while I was watching the figure contract it. The interior is empty, apart from the center column, and the floor is left barren, covered with a fine black lunar dust. 

I suddenly realize that the figure is also inside the dome, and he begins to speak to me telepathically.  His speech is very cold and technical, as he explains the functions of the dome's components. The triangular panels are all solar receptors, which electrically heat a hidden reservoir of water that lies beneath the dome. As the water boils the steam it creates travels up the center column, which contains turbines that generate the electricity that powers the dome. 

The dome has no windows, instead, the inside surface of each triangular panel is a sort of display screen.

The man then informs me that I am to remain in the dome, and leaves. Immediately after the screens turn on and strange ethereal lights begin to swirl around me, pulsating and growing in intensity until I am completely blinded by the white light. 

With that all vanishes and the dream ends. 

The storyteller's mental space.

We'll shoot at the Atlantic Studios (keflavik), in an empty pool.

filmstills / work in progress

filmstills / work in progress

Sidney Alexander Blevins.

He's a composer from USA and he will work on the soundtrack of the film.

He's our dreamer.

filmstills / work in progress

(en) 

It is the phantasm of an aerial journey, in Iceland, following the path drawn by NASA and the experiments that preceded the firsts steps on the moon.

Initiated by the evocation of a waking dream, the film traces the crossed trajectories of two journeys into space , one dreamed and the other real. 

The first journey is a mental one, through the dream of a character, Sidney.

The dreamer relays the fragmented story of his hallucinated visions. His wandering through the mental landscapes that he generates draws the outlines of a deserted territory, lunar, in which rise ghost shapes. It is a no man's land scattered with floating spheres, geodesic structures ; Perimeter of a moving architectural presence, vestige of this futurist projection. 

From those images arise the possibility of a reality : the launching of an aerial balloon. Following the trajectory of a spacial flight, it will allow the camera to capture the reality of an unreachable odyssey. 

(fr)

C'est le fantasme d'un voyage aérien en Islande, suivant le chemin tracé par la Nasa et les expérimentations précédant le premier voyage lunaire. 

Amorcé par l'évocation d'un rêve éveillé, le film retrace les trajectoires croisées de deux voyages dans l'espace, l'un rêvé et l'autre réel.
Le premier voyage, est un voyage mental à travers le rêve d'un personnage, Sidney.
Le rêveur livre le récit  fragmenté de ses visions hallucinées. Sa déambulation au travers des paysages mentaux qu'il génère dessinent les contours d'un territoire déserté, lunaire dans lequel émergent des formes fantômes. C'est un no man's land parsemé de sphères flottantes et de structures géodésiques ; détour d'une présence architecturée et mouvante, vestige de cette projection futuriste.
De ces images nait la possibilité d'une réalité : le lancement d'un ballon aérien. Décrivant la trajectoire d'un vol spatial, il permettra à la camera de capter la réalité d'une insaisissable odyssée.