License: The movie “Elephants Dream” is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license. In short, this means you can freely reuse and distribute this content, also commercially, for as long you provide a proper attribution.© copyright Blender Foundation <br /> <br />Directed by Bassam Kurdali <br />Produced by Ton Roosendaal <br />Written by Pepijn Zwanenberg <br />Starring Cas Jansen <br /> Tygo Gernandt <br />Music by Jan Morgenstern <br />Release dates 2006 <br />Running time 10 min 54 sec <br />Language English <br /> <br />Cast <br /> <br />Tygo Gernandt - Proog <br />Cas Jansen - Emo <br /> <br />Crew <br /> <br />Ton Roosendaal - Producer <br />Bassam Kurdali - Director <br />Andy Goralczyk - Art director <br />Matt Ebb - Artist <br />Bastian Salmela - Artist <br />Lee Salvemini - Artist <br />Toni Alatalo - Technical director <br />Jan Morgenstern - Composer <br /> <br />Plot: <br />"The story is very simple—I'm not sure you can call it a complete story even—It is about how people create ideas/stories/fictions/social realities and communicate them or impose them on others. Thus Proog has created (in his head) the concept of a special place/machine, that he tries to "show" to Emo. When Emo doesn't accept his story, Proog becomes desperate and hits him. It's a parable of human relationships really—You can substitute many ideas (money, religion, social institutions, property) instead of Proog's machine—the story doesn't say that creating ideas is bad, just hints that it is better to share ideas than force them on others. There are lots of little clues/hints about this in the movie—many little things have a meaning—but we're not very "tight" with it, because we are hoping people will have their own ideas about the story, and make a new version of the movie. In this way (and others) we tie the story of the movie with the "open movie" idea." <br /> <br />© copyright Blender Foundation
