Marieke / Script draft

Script draft

Pervasive light – Voice

Intimate conversations

Psychological area – Gazing

Mirrors finding reflection – Vulnerable

Psychological control

Questions – What do I look like, who am I?

Presence implied through light and voice, lack of being present is creepy.

Reminds of the movie Her, what is needed to create an ego?

Specific questioning – Humanity, voice is replaced by light

Interrogated by someone who is not fully there.

She speaks to the mirror her reflection, an ominous presence she answers but it seems like she is talking to herself.

Another layer where is the conversation taking place?

Approach it as voice and light, she is the body.

What does it mean to be exposed?

Film the light as if it is a person.

All prevailing / Always looking / Invasive

Don’t talk to me (the voice), but to the light or to herself.

But she can ask me questions.

Characters

• Voice / Light
• The girl

Location

• Bedroom
• Mirrors
• Drawings
• Small space
• Night vision / Night

Notes

• Camera as a character
• Found footage on laptop
• Someone knocking at the door (interruption of space) – Room of just bed and door
• Other reality – Frames lead to event
• Like in tapes broken frames in between other footage – Could be bloody
• Claustrophobic small space, entire film stuck in room
• Sudden change or subtle change
• Body Horror – Someone is so anxious in their body, that they want to leave it
• ‘’You can’t see it but she sees it’’ – Opposite / something in between.
• Passing through a mirror.

Questions from the Light / Voice

• What do you see?
• Do you see me?
• Is it dark?
• Do you feel sleepy?
• What time is it?
• Did you dream anything last night?
• Do you sleep lately?
• Why are you not sleeping?
• Sleeping is a vulnerable state, right?
• Is this your room?
• Does this feel like your room?
• Do you feel safe in your room?
• What time is it?
• Is it night?
• What keeps you awake?
• Do you think sleep is like dying for a little while?
• Both are unconscious states, right?
• What do you think of intervening death?
• Did you ever have a dream where you felt alive?
• Do you feel alive when you are awake?
• Can you see yourself in reflections when you sleep?
• What reflections do you see now?
• Does it sometimes feel like you sleep when you are awake?
• Like you are in a dream or a movie?
• Alienated or unfamiliar with your surroundings?
• Do your memories feel like dreams?
• Are they yours?
• How often do you have déjà-vu’s?
• What is, more real dreams or the state of being awake?
• How would people memorize you?
• Do your drawings reflect your inner state?
• Are they a reflection of who you are?
• How old are you?
• How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
• Do you miss the past you sometimes?
• Have you had times where you checked if you exist?
• Do you ever feel like an outside observer of your thoughts, feelings and body?
• Like you are floating in air above yourself?
• Are you disconnected from people?
• Do your surroundings ever feel distorted or artificial?
• Does the present ever feel like the past?
• Even recent memories?
• Is this already a memory?
• Are you looking at yourself?
• Do you remember this conversation?