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Murmurs

A reclusive ASMR superstar invites an online date to her studio. A paranoid romance with tingles.

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Murmurs

Murmurs

Murmurs

Murmurs

Murmurs

A reclusive ASMR superstar invites an online date to her studio. A paranoid romance with tingles.

A reclusive ASMR superstar invites an online date to her studio. A paranoid romance with tingles.

A reclusive ASMR superstar invites an online date to her studio. A paranoid romance with tingles.

A reclusive ASMR superstar invites an online date to her studio. A paranoid romance with tingles.

Graeme Cole
Graeme Cole
Graeme Cole
Graeme Cole
1 Campaign |
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
$3,565 USD $3,565 USD by 56 backers
$2,093 USD by 52 backers on Sep 3, 2015

Thanks to amazing support from friends old and new, we passed the 100% mark with a few hours to go. If you came this far, it would be great to link up with you to keep you updated about the future of the movie:

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Two lost souls on a 36 hour date

Hana is an ASMR* superstar who has millions of fans around the world, but hasn’t left the house for 18 months.

Ed monitors CCTV footage on his laptop for a living and hasn’t slept since an industrial accident resulted in his skull being patched up with a metal plate.

Hana meets Ed on a dating site and invites him over for dinner. They can cook, laugh, drink, learn to trust each other without her needing to leave the house. A perfect plan... if our heroes were perfect.

 

 

Made In Sarajevo

Filmmaker Graeme Cole brings together two of his favourite on-screen collaborators to make a film that probes the meaning of intimacy and trust and does not shy away from exposing the ridiculousness of human beings (especially when we’re trying to look our best).

Working under the mentorship of Béla Tarr at the Hungarian auteur’s film.factory in Sarajevo, Murmurs is being carefully crafted by a small international team of artists to produce a funny and hypnotic romance with a bittersweet tang. As film.factory students, the crew were honoured to have workshops with some of the greatest living filmmakers, including Guy Maddin, Gus Van Sant, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Carlos Reygadas, Pedro Costa, Cristian Mungiu and the Quay Brothers, in the months leading up to the production.

Murmurs borrows from the conventions of ASMR videos to create a fictional world that is both stylized and familiar. It has the intimate ‘filmmaker next door’ feel that Graeme has previously cultivated in movies such as his musical It’s Nick’s Birthday, or his cardboard-and-glue adventure series Universal Ear.

 

 

Your Support

Principle shooting on the project has wrapped, but we urgently need your support to complete the movie and bring it to audiences at festivals and online. Your help will enable us to do the following:

  • Shoot additional scenes
  • Edit the final film
  • Colour correction, compositing and effects
  • Sound design and mixing
  • Marketing and distribution

Murmurs is a simple concept with a complex production. Most of the scenes aside from Hana’s ASMR videos are shot on two cameras, and will be presented in split screen to tweak the sense of intimacy and the disharmony of our heroes’ experiences. 

The sound design will be fine-tuned to take advantage of Hana and Ed’s intimate shared soundscape, playing on the ASMR triggers both in Hana’s videos and as we follow their date. We also need to create and integrate backgrounds for Hana’s green-screened videos. 

Our excellent post-production team are working for reduced rates, but for such a complex project we need to invest in time and facilities to bring the film to completion soon and to the standard its audience deserves.

Like all of Graeme’s films, Murmurs has been carefully designed to make a positive feature of its low budget. We just need a bit more to get us to the finish line.

Perks and Thanks

We’ve put together some great perks for your donations, some ASMR-themed and others related to the film’s wider themes and connections. If there’s any other way you’d like to help – by offering services or additional rewards, for example – please get in touch. And of course, the more you can share our campaign with your friends and communities, the greater the investment in the film.

Goals

We've reached our initial target and are hard at work finishing the film for you. However, our Indiegogo campaign is now in 'In Demand' mode - which means that contributions are still gratefully accepted! Further funding will help us publicise the film more effectively, get it to more festivals and screenings, and if it's enough... consider expanding the Murmurs universe with new spin-offs and extras.

 

A note from the filmmaker

 

With Murmurs, I wanted to experiment with the feeling of intimacy in the movies, but to apply my ideas and reflections to characters who would be willing to wrestle them away from intellectualism. Actors Elma and Lockwood were – as ever – game to be experimented with, and they bring a great deal of their own ridiculous selves to these characters: two lost souls trying to do what hot-blooded and romantic souls always have with each other – share body warmth, catch a knowing glance, and hopefully some heavy petting. Very straightforwardly, Hana is a recluse who broadcasts herself to the world, and Ed is a globetrotter whose attention is fixed firmly on his computer screen. I was interested to play with the ways our wired worlds are failing to precisely rewire our bodies and minds, and to reveal the beautiful, clumsy animal-robots swimming about in the amniotic fluid of the internet age.

You can see some of my previous films here.

International crew

Made within the community of Sarajevo's film.factory, Murmurs has benefited from the generous collaboration of some of the most promising filmmakers of their generation, including:

Aleksandra Niemczyk (Poland/Norway) - Producer, Art Director and Cinematographer

Ghazi Alqudcy (Singapore) - Cinematographer

Namsuk Kim (South Korea) - Sound Recording

Luciano Pérez Savoy (Mexico) - Sound Recording

Stijn Bouma (Netherlands) - Additional Photography

Michael Cacioppo Belantara (USA) - Sound Design and Mixing

>>Interested in learning more about ASMR?  Visit www.asmruniversity.com<<

Graeme's participation on the film.factory program is made possible by the kind support of Nicholas D. Hill, Brian Caswell, MUBI.com, Lyn Goleby, Bob and Lesley Cole, and his long-suffering parents Maureen & John.

Whether you contribute or not, we'd love to stay in touch with you on our social media platforms (below or here).

 

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Digital Download

Currency Conversion $25 USD
£20 GBP
When the film is complete and released you'll get your very own copy to watch at your leisure.
Estimated Shipping
May 2016
8 claimed

Inbox Tingle

Currency Conversion $6 USD
£5 GBP
A colourful digital postcard of thanks from the Director.
Estimated Shipping
September 2015
8 claimed

Tingleheads Roll Call

Currency Conversion $13 USD
£10 GBP
Your name mentioned alongside fellow ten-quidders in an ASMR video of thanks.
Estimated Shipping
September 2015
8 claimed

Tingly Namecheck

Currency Conversion $19 USD
£15 GBP
An ASMR-style personalised thank you recorded and delivered to your inbox.
Estimated Shipping
September 2015
5 claimed

Lullaby

Currency Conversion $38 USD
£30 GBP
Download a sleepy mixtape curated by the director.
Estimated Shipping
December 2015
1 claimed

Exclusive Tingles

Currency Conversion $63 USD
£50 GBP
Exclusive access to full ASMR videos that are partly featured in the movie. Plus the Tingly Namecheck and the Digital Download perks.
Estimated Shipping
January 2016
5 claimed

The Villain

Currency Conversion $126 USD
£100 GBP
Limited Edition - Be a Villain immortalised- Graeme will name the villain in a forthcoming episode of his series, UNIVERSAL EAR, after you. Plus the Tingly Namecheck and the Digital Download perks.
Estimated Shipping
March 2016
0 out of 3 of claimed

Associate Producer of Tingles

Currency Conversion $189 USD
£150 GBP
Limited - You'll be one of our Associate Producers with your name credited in the final film and on IMDB.
Estimated Shipping
December 2015
5 out of 8 of claimed

Tingles from the Director

Currency Conversion $226 USD
£180 GBP
Personalized ASMR video just for you from the director. Plus the Tingly Namecheck, Digital Download and Lullaby perks.
Estimated Shipping
December 2015
0 out of 10 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

Tingles from the Star

Currency Conversion $377 USD
£300 GBP
Personalised ASMR video for you by the Lead Actress in the film. Plus the Tingly Namecheck, Digital Download and Lullaby perks.
Estimated Shipping
December 2015
0 out of 10 of claimed
Ships worldwide.

Executive Producer

Currency Conversion $1,006 USD
£800 GBP
Exclusive - You will be an Executive Producer of the film with your name in the credits and on IMDB. We'll also invite you to any film festivals the film goes to and the cast and crew screening/party, PLUS you'll get a Digital Download of the film and access to full ASMR videos featured in the film. (transport and accommodation not included with this perk)
Estimated Shipping
December 2015
1 out of 3 of claimed
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