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2006 computer animated short film directed by Bassam Kurdali

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Elephants Dream is a film released on March 24, 2006. It was produced by the Blender Foundation in the Netherlands. The movie has a runtime of 11 minutes. Bassam Kurdali served as the director.

The production had a budget of 150000. The film is categorized under the keywords future and dreams. Its status is listed as Released.

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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.

Released: 2006-03-2411 minDir: Bassam KurdaliAnimation, Science FictionBudget: $150,000

Cast

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

Themes

  • future
  • dreams

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Key facts

Directed by
Bassam Kurdali
Screenplay by
Pepijn Zwanenberg
Story by
Andreas Goralczyk, Bassam Kurdali, Ton Roosendaal
Produced by
Ton Roosendaal
Starring
Cas Jansen , Tygo Gernandt
Music by
Jan Morgenstern
Animation by
Toni Alatalo, Andreas Goralczyk, Matt Ebb, Bastian Salmela, Lee Salvemini, Enrico Valenza, Roland Hess, Robert Ives, Joeri Kassenaar
Production companies
Blender Foundation , Netherlands Institute for Media Art / Montevideo TBA, The Orange Open Movie Project
Distributed by
Blender Foundation
Release date
24 March 2006 ( 2006-03-24 )
Running time
9 minutes
Country
Netherlands
Language
English
Budget
€120,000

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
open-source film
Country of origin
Netherlands
Original language
English language
Followed by
Big Buck Bunny
Voice actor
Tygo Gernandt
Production company
Blender Foundation
Duration
658
FilmAffinity ID
935744
Distribution format
video on demand
Official website
orange.blender.org
Image
Elephants Dream Emo Proog s6.jpg
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publication date
2006-03-24
title
Elephants Dream
distributed by
Netflix
assessment
Bechdel test
fabrication method
computer animation
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Encyclopedic overview

Elephants Dream (code-named Project Orange during production and originally titled Machina) is a 2006 Dutch animated science fiction fantasy experimental short film produced by Blender Foundation using, almost exclusively, free and open-source software. The film is English-language and includes subtitles in over 30 languages.

Plot

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