Directed by Ian Campell

Logline: Emerging from wilderness, a man discovers that strange mechanical objects have replaced all the people.

Synopsis: A man emerges from a heavily forested area of northern Saskatchewan to discover that all the people in his home town have disappeared. In their place stands a series of massive devices of unknown origin or purpose. Without fuel or food he wanders aimlessly across the landscape trying to divine what meaning can be made in a world without people.

Distribution Contact: WFG

More Details

RUNTIME: 9 Minutes
GENRE: Experimental, Narrative, Fiction
PRODUCTION FORMAT: HD
LANGUAGE: English
LOCATION: Saskatchewan
TECHNIQUES: Computer Animation
KEYWORDS: Loneliness, Post-Apocalyptic, Machines, Prairie, Dumpster, Decay

Director's Statement: The Floating World is the first in a trilogy of short experimental narratives that investigate a lone central man's navigation of hostile and broken world. An ambiguous technological presence pushes the character toward an unknown goal, leading him through an environment that is both an omen of disaster and an increasingly hard to understand puzzle.