"SYNEMATIKA: The 3D Script"
Multimedia installation opening October 1 in Kingston, NY

New transmedia project SYNEMATIKA by Michael Pope begins with movie script as 3D immersive installation

Filmmaker and director of experimental feature film NEOVOXER immersed himself in a 30-day endurance lockdown to create a feature film script in 3D, as a 2000-square foot walk-through experience with sound

From award-winning filmmaker and transmedia artist Michael Pope, director of the Dresden Dolls music videos, Who Killed Amanda Palmer, and the creator of the multimedia extravaganza NEOVOXER, comes a new genre-bending transmedia project, which he describes as "A Kungfu-Porno, Action-Adventure, Transmedia Tao of the Creative Process & Love Letter to Life." --Synematika.com

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Why a 3D Script? (Interview)

Interviewed at the Cloud Club in Boston, Pope explained his creative process and why the 3D Script is key:

“What IS a three dimensional script? That’s always the first question I get asked about the project. Of course everybody basically knows the answer, at least in some vague way. It’s a script that exists beyond the two dimensional restrictions of the written page. Simple. The real question people are asking me then is ‘WHY a three dimensional script’ And to that I can only say - It came to me in a dream.”

"You would never expect to write an essay describing the painting you're about to paint... That's not what you would do in preparation of painting a picture; sitting down and writing something that says 'It's going to have blue in it, it's going to have trees... etc. Or, more to the point, if you want to do that - awesome for you - but in that same vein of logic, you can also play a piece of music describing the color blue even more effectively than anything you may write. So… why not?”

“Traditional movie scripts, remember, are actually an invention of the movie ‘business’, not the filmmakers themselves - not the actual movie ‘artists’. The format of the traditional “Hollywood” script was invented, for one simple reason; to control and protect the investor’s financial interests. Their power - the investors - was absolute, because filmmaking was so insanely expensive; I mean movies shot on film, edited on film, projected on film… So insanely expensive that to break out of that mold cinematically one really needed to be some kind of crazy. To be a so-called ‘Indie Filmmaker’ or ‘Movie Artist’ was to really sign up for a life of being broke, broken hearted, and desperately scratching together any cash that might get you back on set. Or, conversely… Step in line, follow the rules, kiss the ring… Which quite frankly, I’ve never been very good at.”

“Now everything has changed. I’m walking around with a machine in my pocket smaller than a deck of cards that, if necessary, can shoot, edit, score, and upload movies to a worldwide viewing theater, AND also works as a god damn telephone… I mean… How do you spell fckingawesome! So the rules of the game are - BOOM - gone. None of us owe the world following arbitrary and obsolete rules. I don’t owe the world writing scripts that start on the first page and end on the last page. This is a great new creative adventure, the implications of which speak to personal expression, social expression, political and economic expression - it’s a collective creative adventure that’s having a tectonic effect on our shared evolution. An effect that is really… Immeasurable at this point.”

“So yes, I'm choosing to do this 3D Script because it's a direct reflection of how I actually create. I immerse; in sound and texture and tempo and environment, the language palette for the human condition is so rarely utilized to it’s fullest, and goes so far beyond just the written and spoken word. I'm not adding the three-dimensional script to my process, the three-dimensional script IS my process. I'm just saying out loud, 'This is my process, and welcome to the show.'"

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