Posts by dan from why.movie

Arborealists 01:42 trees getting rubbed out elm and beech, hemlock by bugs up from the south supposed “foresters” couldn’t stop •• they saw trees as lumber just another resource to plunder not our brothers and sisters in this world until the coming of the daughter girl •• they say she talked to the trees in…

What was Christina doing from 11 to 16? how about 16 to 23? How did the crew of the boat find her? Maybe some backstory on Joe and Gerry, just for practice and weaving the three stories. Especially Joe’s and Christina’s. How did he find, select her? This begins to be unwieldy, I could convert…

Reference – Notes to Nicola about She Box voicing and Joe’s state of mind ONE [Hello Buffalo Joe!] Hello. [Where to begin? There’s so much to share.] I like to share. (bit of Mr Rogers) [You have come. Our experience is delicious. We are both cherishing and reveling.] (Joe assumes her “we” refers to he…

Joe sets off to find the origin of the distress call.

Package delivery Dusk. Standing by his bike, Joe activates the iStone, scrolls through the menus and thumbs the surveillance preset for Gerry’s cabin. A fuzzy image of Christina and Gerry on the bed appears. The boxes in the cabin flash in sync, an exclamation point. The boxes are aware that surveillance has been activated, but…

INT. CHRISTINA’S chair in her Cabin – DAY[] Christina is sitting alone daydreaming, popping packing bubbles. Her phone rings, she answers. CHRISTINA Hello? CALLER Christina? (radio effects) CHRISTINA Yes? CALLER This is your Uncle Joe. (radio effects) flashback INT. child’s bedroom, about 20 years earlier[] Young UNCLE JOE on lying bed, leaning back against headboard.…

Mushrooms Gerry crosses the weather deck and winds his way down the stairs to the main deck and his cabin, ready to resume the mediatronic hackathon. He muses about Christina along the way. Thinking of her seems to heighten his intuition, somehow. He heard she likes to collect gaudy and highly impractical clothing in town,…

Prompt Big Boat A disembodied iStone prompt glows against the dark of closed eyelids. (blinking green retro cursor) Spoken in Joe’s voice, perhaps Hungarian? slight lag while converted to english subtitles “Compose prior 2 hours of surveillance on big boat as intro to golden age American television sitcom with catchy theme song'” [Surveillance can be…

Hidey Hole An abandoned super highway ends at the base of an ancient mountain. Broken pavement is clotted with military vehicles and equipment. Several American Abrams tanks bristle with cannon, heavy caliber machine guns and more mysterious weaponry. Troop transports and shipping containers are jammed together haphazardly. Animated advertisements and vague propaganda slogans blaze across…

Here is the opening line of the first paragraph. This is the first word spoken. The next story starts. Prequel: Star stuff, gaseous consolidation, magma cooling, primordial goop. An ocean was here, then a mile high glacier. Eventually, the ocean evaporated and the glacier melted. All that ancient transience is now echoed in dunes of…