What's This all About, Then?
Architecture of an Atom is a narrative film central to a trans-media project directed, written and co-produced by Juliacks.
The film depicts a group of displaced ‘adult-children’ who move into an abandoned pool in France. In their creative escape from an impending war around them, they find a syncretic object, an anthropomorphic whistle that they use to grieve and move into death worlds.
Juliacks' work is about transformation through loss. As a layered narrative construction, Architecture of an Atom evolves using the elastic qualities of memory and imagination, enabling the manipulation of time, place and character with the mediums of narrative film, performance and comics. As characterized by the New York Times, "Juliacks whose work– crude, ornate, subjective and dreamy — is not for those who prefer their narrative crisp and tidy."
THE GROUP OF ADULT CHILDREN
Starring the international performers extraordinaire~ Anna Barie, Charlene Van Buekenhout, Raphael Defour, Jean Louis Delorme, Veronika Driedger, Zen Jefferson, Kolbeinn Karlsson, Sari T.M. Kivinen, Jane Rhyu, Vanessa Bonnet-Delmond within the main storyline, this film also features the performances of Rami, Sam Creely, Josefin Alfredson Agnestig and more within its auxilliary "infinite whistle deathworlds" shot in parts of Sweden, Finland, Rome, New York, Winnipeg, Lisbon, and France.
This film is designed, photographed and recorded by Benoit Pallandre, Jake Russell, Florian Emma, Baptiste Odet, Steven K. Johnson, and many others with the original story conception by Juliacks and Amy Johnson.
Music by Ela Orleans, Lichens, Family Underground, MAG, Manuel Cascone, Rickard Daun, the Finnish group of Roy Boswell, Sanna Lehto, Julian Parker, Emilia Pennanen, Jone Takamäki and more.
With Assistant directing by Hayley Quentin, this film shoot in August is co-produced and coordinated by Néon, Jessica Cook, Florian Micheli, Luoic Guilmard with help from GrrrndZero and Panavision.
This team of artists, cinematographers, producers, musicians, actors, and more are coming this August from all different corners of the globe to help create Architecture of an Atom, one electron at a time. For more information on each of these unique individuals, please visit our project's website at archatom.org
With Your Support!
We are currently focused on the two week shoot in August in France, with contributions and collaborations from some amazing people although the project will be going through 2014, needing aid for a second film shoot in Bourges (France), and post-production costs as well. Though we already have some partial funding from organizations and individuals, this project is a huge undertaking. Your support will go directly to the following:
- art department raw materials for building sets, props, costumes and makeup
- technical equipment rental: cameras/lights/sound/action!
- onsite location shooting equipment (sires, generators, etc)
- transportation during shoots, flight & train tix to Lyon, gas & toll money, renting vehicles if necessary.
- post production costs-renting studios, film, developing & processing for shots on 16mm, tech needs, foley materials and more.
- Food and lodging for cast and crew during onsite shoot in French Alps
- Artist fees
- Printing the comic art book of Architecture of an Atom!
- Finishing the Infinite Whistle Series!
- Translations & Subtitles
Most Importantly, you will essentially ensure that we can complete our two week shoot this August in France!
Transmedia Element
Revolving and intersecting this story are an ambitious series of collaborative short films, performances, sculptural and comic works.
The performances and short films are part of "the Infinite Whistle series." Each short is filmed in different locations of the world. The whistle is based upon ancient venus sculptures such as “the Venus of Willendorf.” In each short the “Infinite Whistle” comes alive as a person played by a different performer from each place and is made in an exploratory & intuitive manner. Footage from these sub-works will be incorporated into the main story line of Architecture of an Atom feature film.
This sounds like an infinite project, when will it be completed?
The feature film will premiere at the Moderna Museum in Sweden, January 2015.
Help us get there!
This is a far reaching project, how and who has been helping you? This August film shoot is a big step for this scrappy project with a beginning in 2011. Here is a timeline of events in chronological order since the project began in 2011!
- August 2013, First film shoot of main story line with full cast in France made possible by YOU!!
- July 2013, The character Carmentine's prologue and deathworld produced by Stonybrook University's 20/20/20 Film program headed by Christine Vachon.
- July 5 2013, Brooklyn, Washington Heights & the Infinite Whistle sound score performance with Lichens at the premiere of play, Barbarous Nights!
- May 23 2013, Fundraiser Concert in Lyon, France with concerts, projections and performances. See who on our list of supporters!
- Jan 20 2013, Soundscore Performance film shoot with band Family Underground, Kolbeinn Karlsson at the Moderna Museum as part of the SuperSurrealism exhibition.
- Dec 2012 Residency and film shoot of character's Frida and Cohl's deathworld at Atomic Center, MAWA and Martha Street Studios/Manitoba Printmakers Association in Winnipeg, Canada.
- Sept 2012, Sound score performance at Kiasma Museum as part of Helsinki Comics Festival.
- Sept-Nov 2012 Exhibition and Performance series, "CDD," 360m3, LYON, FRANCE-shooting Lyon Infinite Whistle.
- Aug 28-Sept 2 2012 Infinite Whistle Performance Film Shoot at Alt. CPH Fair, COPENHAGEN, DK.
- Jun 21-24 2012 Crack Comics Festival, Soundscore performance for Infinite Whistle with Manuel Cascone. Rome, Italy.
- Feb 10 2012, Soundscore performance for Gotland Whistle with musician MAG and help from GrrrndZero and ENSBA-LYON.
- Sept 2011, Film shoot in Vantaa Finland.
- July 2011, Second Infinite Whistle film shoot in Gotland, Sweden with the help from the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom.
- June 2011, First Infinite Whistle film shoot in Rome, Italy with Amy Johnson, helped by the Crack Comics Festival.
What is coming up for the project afterward?
We'll send you updates on the project when we complete more big steps. Here are some situations that will be helping the film come to a projection surface near you:
- October, 2013 Juliacks will be in residence at Entreprise Culturelle where she begins the comic book of Architecture D'un Atome.
- Jan-March 2014 Juliacks will be in residency at LA BOX, at ENSA-BOURGES who are co-producing the second shoot of the main storyline.
- April-July Editing and post production!
- August-Nov Sound, Music and Post Production
- Dec Print that film!!
Why isn't this project straightforward? Write the script, duh, shoot it, edit, bam your finished??
This story of Architecture of an Atom portrays multiple perspectives, many voices with different memories and systems of frameworks. The formulation of fiction, and its layered organic process defines Juliacks' unfolding method and search.
Begun during the upheavals of the Arab Spring of 2011 and the continued presence of American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, an inspiration for this project was the fact that the questions of peace and the economy and the concrete realities of conflict and war are hard to grapple with and penetrate into on a daily basis. This film returns to this question and takes a deeper look into the relationship between violence, power, and love.
Juliacks' overall aim is to create work that lies within the boundaries of a Gesamtkunstwerk and a trans-media universe, being both synergistic and separate entities at once.
How can you make a feature film, a series of short films & performances, and a graphic novel with just 11,015 dollars?
The actual budget for this project is 86,548.69 with half of it in-kind donations and co-productions. It is a labor of love. Join the love film party!
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