Project Detail

An Organization of Dreams

Name: An Organization of Dreams
Director: Ken McMullen
Genre: Experimental
Released: 2010
Duration: 94 mins

Synopsis

A writer returns, disillusioned, to London and Paris. He begins on a story: a sleeper cell of young, glamorous urban terrorists. Gabriella, glamorous trophy wife of a young king-in-exile, holed up in an opulent London riverside penthouse, falls under the spell of a modern-day Che Guevara and, Patty Hearst-style, enlists in The Cause. She is sent to Paris under the 'front' of a drama student aiming at film. She takes her studies exceptionally seriously: encounters Bernard Stiegler, the leading philosopher on the subject of cinema and the human condition, and other luminaries. And she meets fellow-"student" activists, half-sister and -brother Julia and Sam, skilled actors who seem more interested in petty crime and scams. Their father is a political prisoner held in London; is he the master-mind? Has he been grooming them since childhood?

Our writer adopts the persona of a sleuth as he follows these anti-heroes. Books are passed, stolen: do they bear coded messages? Why is Gabriella obsessed with capturing her interviews on an outdated Nagra tape-recorder? What is their connection with the incipient terrorism on the city streets?

So our writer/sleuth uncovers events; but is he documenting actuality, or inventing a fiction?

Details

Year: 2010
Type of project: Features
Running time: 94 mins
Format: 35mm, HD, Mixed Media
Director: Ken McMullen
Producer: Anders Palm, Fleur Whitlock, Barbara Gorna, David Fairman, Manuela Noble
Co-Producer: Anders Palm, Fleur Whitlock, Barbara Gorna, David Fairman, Manuela Noble
Editor: Adam Finch
Screenwriter: Ken McMullen
Director of Photography: Yorgos Arvanitis, Elso Roque
Sound: Tim Barker
Composer: Michael Nyman
Principal cast: Dominique Pinon, John Shrapnel, Gabriella Wright, Julia Faure, Lex Shrapnel, Sam McMullen

Genre

Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Augustine Pictures

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