Dreams of the Hydra

This film is a meditation on the violence of the natural world. Dr. Seuss creatures play out dramas of life and death in this world in a thimble of water.

Shot in continuity on one roll of super 8 tri-x b&w film at 18 fps on a Canon 1014XLS through a 40x darkfield microscope. Shown in the 2007 Attack of the Fifty Foot Reels festival in Los Angeles.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Hydra
• violence
• death
• animals
• pond
• water
• nature
• daphnia
• artemia
• brine
• shrimp
• flea
• predator
• prey...

[angelembassy]

great idea..love the mood of it...Thank you!

[innerselfire]

Desolado y maravillado por la enternecedora crueldad de esta bellísima escena. Buenísima filmación; el sonido, inmejorable, lleva a experimentar la realidad del drama.

[KojiRecords]

Enlightening, entertaining, educational and scary all at the same time. Fabulous work, thanks for posting and showing yet another facet of that the Canon 1014-xls can do. Tri-X truly kicks ass here. Your selection of the audio track is perfect.

[Rationalitas]

wonderful

[OriginalScratch]

Wow...tenacious!

Super 5-star stuff here. Thanks

[bardowalker]

really nice, this one;)---looks like a scary place...peaceful in its own way. The mood is like jungle, love making, savage, substantiating, eating itself, a world, a being. Points and reminds of the many universes we are normally and conditionally unaware of. Where's the music from? Who's it by? It definitely creates and maintains mood and chamber. Reminds me of Kyron's stuff (Black Note Music). The comment I love the most is gXxaxx: "...it brings back memories."...what a scary guy!

[Blitzroth]

Those sounds just put the whole scene someplace else

[leilajiva]

I actually remember being a gooseberry jellyfish in another lifetime, close cousin to these creatures... The film is rather gorgeous, especially when viewed on your channel. Nice work.

[gXxaxx]

Ah, it brings back memories.