Project Detail

Star Games

Synopsis

Star Games is a visual narrative of a surreal galactic ballet that explains the origins of stars. The inhabitants of a futuristic metropolis train in their hundreds to contest in the Star Games. Patrolling zeppelins select individual gymnasts with a UFO-styled light beam. The gymnasts are pulled up towards the sky to perform a beautifully organic ballet before they dissolve into starlights.

The film’s emotive meaning is that each star symbolizes a past human life. Its message is that human beings are never alone but embedded, just like stars, in a community of others celebrating life with each other.
 

Details

Year
2010
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
3 mins
Format
HD
Director
Jasmin Jodry
Producer
Basil Stephens
Co-Producer
Basil Stephens
Editor
Jasmin Jodry
Screenwriter
Jasmin Jodry
Director of Photography
Tobia Sempi
Production Designer
Jasmin Jodry
Sound
Jude Greenaway
Composer
Jude Greenaway
Principal cast
Nathalie Chick, Imogen Knight, Mira Koslowska
Animation
Jasmin Jodry, Stuart Fortune

Production Status

Production Company

Th1ng

199 Wardour Street
London, W1F 8JP
UK

T +44 (0)20 7439 7966

Sales Company

Jasmin Jodry

info@sophisticatedmadness.com

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