Brain Train (excerpt)

Brain Train
Director: Jimi Pantalon
14 min.
2004

A WashMachine Short-film about Max(Mr. Clown) a narcoleptic amnesiac squatting beneath the New York subway. When Max collages a dream journal that opens a portal to alternate worlds of consciousness, he awakes in a post-apocalyptic wilderness, meeting his kindred spirit; Jasmine(Jennifer Hammaker) together they learn journey is the destination through the realities of illusion. BRAINTRAIN experiments with various aspects of the medium to synthesize cinema and collective dream-time. Three-year collaborative project shot on video and 16mm using live action, stop-motion collage, and documentary footage to examine film as thought process.

{Best Experimental and Excellence in Editing Awards, Arlene's Picture Show NYC, 2005}
{Short Film Slam Winner, Pioneer Theater, NYC 2005}
{Official Selection: NYC Anthology FIlm Archives, New Filmmakers Program 2005; West Chester, PA Film Festival, 2005; River's Edge Film Festival 2006; New England Film and Video Festival 2006; Queens Intl. Film Festival 2006; Santa Clarita Street Art Fair 2006; Intl. Festival of Cinema & Technology 2007}

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• videowash
• washmachine
• jimi
• pantalon
• anthem
• noah
• post
• phil
• moffa
• mr.
• clown
• cucumatz