Layers

PRESENTATION
This a no-budget film by Thomas Lewis

Noirish surrealist cyberpunk.

"Layers" is a short film inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Yoshitoshi ABe's manga "The Nightmare of Fabrication" and the Sasebo massacre.
The film uses HD, Super-8 film and polaroïds.


SYNOPSIS
Alice is a lonely 15-years-old girl. One night she sits alone in her room, yearning for someone to talk to, but her parents aren't home and all her friends have left her. Desperate for some companionship and after hearing a news report about the Sasebo Massacre in Japan, she cuts open a Teddybear she has had since childhood and modifies it so it can move on its own. The experimentation goes really wrong, and Alice starts talking with a strange voice throught the radio...

French-subtitled version here :
http://www.6nema.com/titus/court-metrage/layers-2616

Facebook page here:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=101800684256

Thomas Lewis' Facebook here :
http://www.facebook.com/lewisthomas

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• serial
• experiments
• lain
• abe
• yoshitoshi
• japan
• layers
• otaku
• underground
• ipad
• sasebo
• murder
• schoolgirl
• teen
• nightmare
• fabrication
• horror
• short
• film
• editing
• environment
• music
• slideshow

[angelldarko]

where can i get this translated or with spanish sub dude?

[gummoguy]

@angelldarko well there's only a french-subtitled version available

[angelldarko]

@gummoguy what about full english, i mean audio and subtitles?

[gummoguy]

@angelldarko you can read the english dialogs by reading the manga " the nightmare of fabrication". You can find it on google.

[killernat]

the only problome is no real cyber punk wuold let that much dust build up on their system

[gummoguy]

@killernat True, let's say the character is just lazy

[abflygm]

My name is yoshitoshi ABe. Thank you. I'm very glad.

[bytesabre]

Present day. PRESENT TIME! AHAHAHA....

[sankkaboy]

Nice shooting but no inspiration. You just transposed The NoF doujin of Abe Yoshitoshi and said it's "inspired". It'as a fuckin copy. It's visually cool but poorly inspired. You should have kept the character of Lain and the doujin content to truly adapt them on a real short-movie

[0PsychoSamurai0]

That was awesome, i am a huge fan of Lain, it changed my life. you did a really good job on this, i love how you added Nevada tan too.

[LoliVomits]

I enjoyed this, SEL was amazing and this was good, I really enjoyed how Nevada-tan was added in.

[theValkyrie01]

Fuck Real Life, Fuck Reality.

/thread

[BaffleBento]

You know, I went in and started watching this thinking I wouldn't like it. (So why did I? I'm not sure. Compulsory, I guess?)

I did like it though :o Usually english in Japanese concepts is really off-putting for me, but in your case it just needed some 'getting used-to', if that makes sense ^_^

Good job! Also, Nevada-tan~

[PayNoAttentiontoCaes]

I came.