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| PROJECT | Sun Dance Films | The Dreamer |
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Set in a world where clones are endlessly manufactured and discarded for the newest model; a male and female clone share a last look as they wait to be called to termination. Against the callous inhumanity of the termination plant workers, the woman is strapped, electrocuted and dropped into a furnace before the man is hooked up. But the circuit fails and in the desperate moments before his death we see that they are not mindless creatures and that with the basest stimulus, the human genes cannot help but dream.
Producer, Ivor B Powell asked Artem to provide the sinister termination machine seen extending out from within a concealed recess in the ceiling of the termination plant. We designed and built an elaborately engineered device operated with a combination of cables and radio control.
Artem also provided all floor effects, pyrotechnics, props and atmospherics. |
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"I have worked with Artem many times over the years as a Producer making television commercials and always found them to be innovative, enthusiastic and creative - whatever the scale of the budget.
When I turned to them for their help on The Dreamer, a highly ambitious science faction short film about human cloning, they threw themselves into the project despite lack of funds.
They designed a termination, electrocution arm that was so superb it could have come from a Hollywood mega movie. Not only did it look fantastic, but it also worked.
It was the key piece of hardware ? the whole production would not have worked without it looking totally believable.
During the short seven days of our production, they supplied a highly professional effects team to standby during the shooting ensuring that everything went smoothly and that we achieved virtually everything on our storyboards and shot lists.
I recommend Artem and their team to all Producers about to make a movie in England involving any kind of physical special effects. They won?t let you down."
Ivor Powell, Producer, The Dreamer |
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