Lullaby For A Lunatic

Lullaby for a lunatic is our first independent feature film we’ve been silent about for the last few months now. Damian Kuehn and myself (Sterling Pache), began early pre-production last fall, but we’re now confident to start talking about the project seeing as some of the critical pieces have fallen into place. The film is currently scheduled to begin shooting in September 2010. We will be shooting the feature film on the Canon 5D Mark II (And possibly the Canon 7D).

While we’ve been busy casting & strategizing, the film’s writer, Igor Serdarevic has been working with, and being inspired by, the film’s designer; Timothy Hung to bring you what we hope will be not only a compelling and unusual story, but also a story backed by strong visuals and design.

Our goal is to create a film that treats the theme of love approached from a unique & imaginative angle.

By means of dreams and other symbols, which are important parts of our life, implemented in storytelling, image and sound, we will have our protagonist exploring two vastly different worlds in his quest to better understand himself and his environment.

Our protagonist; Liam, is laid off work and arrives home early one day to find his wife at home with her dance teacher Paulo. Liam begins to spiral out of control. Confused and quickly loosing a grip on his own sanity he chases Paulo down the corridor, where he is confronted with an image of himself in a hallway mirror. Our suspicions that something unreal is stirring is confirmed as Liam looks in the mirror, but the image does not mimic his own behaviour. It is at this point that we realize Liam has lost his mind.

As Liam descends into his subconscious he is greeted by the memory of a few of his childhood imaginary friends: A doctor named Poldy and a romantic interest; a girl-woman with false suicidal tendencies named Chunga.

Liam’s perception of reality is altered for the duration of the film as he sets off down a path of debauchery, to seek revenge against Paulo. During this degenerate, sometimes nasty, experience Liam becomes increasingly drawn towards his imaginary friend Chunga. Through the development of this relationship he comes to terms with what his wife did and he even has the opportunity to understand her position by being in a similar situation himself with his imaginary relationship to Chunga. He hopes in the end that his wife too, will forgive him for his own inability to control his emotions.

Here’s to creating cinema and misguided protagonists.

You can follow Damian’s (the film’s producer) on his film production blog to keep informed about the production process.