We are very proud to announce that Dimensions was awarded Best Film 2012 at the London Independent Film Festival. We’d like to thank the festival organisers, and all the people that came out to see the film! It means a huge amount to us, and we are especially proud to have now won two Best Film awards. Thanks!!!!
Our Sci-Fi-London screening is SOLD OUT, but there are lots of great films playing at the festival. Take a look at their website and see what takes your fancy. http://www.sci-fi-london.com/
Sloane will be talking on May 5th at BFI (noon) as part of the ‘BFI Future Film in association with SCI-FI-LONDON presents: To the Cinema and Beyond!’. For information and tickets click here.
Later that same day (May 5th), Sloane will be talking at ‘BAFTA and SCI-FI-LONDON present Genre filmmaking in Britain: is there a market for science fiction filmmaking in the UK’. For tickets and more information, please click here.
We have a charity screening of Dimensions on 11th May at Gordonstoun in Morayshire, Scotland. If you know anyone in the area, please share! Thanks.
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The award-winning film Dimensions: A Line, A Loop, A Tangle of Threads will screen for the first time in Scotland, 7 p.m. on May 11th in the Ogstoun Theatre at Gordonstoun. The filmmakers will be in attendance to answer questions and talk about their past experiences in the film industry on films which include Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. All profits from this preview screening will go to the Moray Society.
Dimensions: A Line, A Loop, A Tangle of Threads is set in the 1920s/30s and revolves around a scientist’s obsession with going back in time to revisit a moment from his childhood. The film stars Henry Lloyd-Hughes (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The Inbetweeners), Camilla Rutherford (Gosford Park, Rome) and Patrick Godfrey (The Duchess, The Remains of the Day, A Room With A View).
The film was directed by Sloane U’Ren who has worked in the art departments on films such as Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Being John Malkovich andBatman Begins. Her husband, Ant Neely, wrote the screenplay and has in the past composed music that can be heard on television shows such as Six Feet Under and Boston Legal.
Dimensions has just been awarded Best Film 2012 at the London Independent Film Festival. The film previously won the Gort Award for Best Film 2012 at the Boston Science Fiction Film Festival (previous winners include Duncan Jones for Moon).
Dimensions is a graceful, deliberately paced, thought-provoking film aimed at a mature audience. Complimentary drinks will be included.
For tickets (£10), please contact dimensions.moray@hotmail.co.uk
When writing the script for Dimensions, I spent many hours thinking about how we perceive time. The passage of time is something that has always fascinated – and frightened – me, so it seemed natural to explore it in the film. (I do want to say, though, that although Stephen’s concept of time in Dimensions is part to the story, the film is actually focussed on the characters and what they are going through. Sloane was very keen to make a film that was a character-driven story in a sci-fi world, rather then a film that focussed primarily on a sci-fi world.) Dimensions is about jealousy, need, love, desire and the toll these emotions take – albeit with a time travel undercurrent.
Most of us imagine time as a straight line, from the beginning to the end. Imagine then a sheet of lined paper, with the lines running up and down. Now choose one of the lines to be our ‘beginning to end’ line. However, what if, we could move over to the left (or right) to one of the adjacent lines? This parallel line (or universe) might be identical to ours, or different. Perhaps it’s radically different and on that line (universe), Britain is a desert and I am eight feet tall. As it’s the next line over, though, let’s assume it is almost identical to this universe – perhaps only two atoms (or even subatomic particles) have changed places.
In the film, it is Stephen’s belief that every possible parallel universe exists – i.e., every possible event or combination of events takes place somewhere in this huge (infinite) multiverse. For our lined-paper analogy to work we, therefore, would need an infinite number of lines. Now I, for one, am not capable of imagining an infinite length of paper with an infinite number of lines, so I like to make it manageable by making the paper into a tube – with the lines running lengthwise. Almost like a length of lined hosepipe with an infinite circumference.
In the film, a young Stephen is taught by the Professor that it is possible that time does indeed run in directions we can’t physically perceive. Perhaps it is possible to move sideways (i.e., around the circumference of the hosepipe). Imagine if we tilt the length of pipe slightly, and then put a drop of water at the beginning of our original line. Now, if we rotate the pipe as the water slides down it, we have a visual analogy for moving sideways through time while still moving forwards in time. Perhaps every choice we make leads us onto these sideways lines – if I pour my tea over my laptop now, I move to the left. If I don’t I move to the right (or stay in a straight line).
Things get really weird, though, if we take our pipe and join the two ends, so it becomes a ring. In this scenario, the end of time leads us back to the beginning. If we rotate and wiggle the pipe, we can get our drop of water to flow forwards, backwards, sideways, on a diagonal – an ever changing path. These are just the beginnings of the visual games I used when thinking about Stephen’s concepts of time. Of course there are a lot of ‘ifs’ involved and I certainly don’t claim to have any answers (or be any sort of expert). The hosepipe is one of several shapes I have thought about – but I shan’t bore you with others (globe, mobius strip, etc.).
One of the things that becomes apparent, if you view time as more than a straight line, is the paradoxes disappear. For example, the old ‘if I go back in time and kill my grandfather, how will I ever be born’-type question. Yes, you can’t simply go back on the line you are on as you didn’t kill him originally in that timeline (universe). However, what if you go backwards on a diagonal – i.e. to a line (universe) where you did kill him? He is, therefore, still alive and dead – depending on that line you look at. Starts to hurt when you think about it, doesn’t it?
They are just things I enjoy thinking about and trying to understand. Do you need to understand this, or even care about it to enjoy the film? No. However, if you are interested in this sort of concept, you might want to check out Hugh Everett and his metaverse / multiverse theories.
“I can assure you, I’m not mad. But then again I would say that, wouldn’t I.” Stephen, circa 1936
We are currently organising a sales/distributor screening in London. Screening will take place on Thursday 24th November, 6.30 p.m. Please email rsvp@dimensionsthemovie.com with company information if you would like to attend.
“undoubtedly one of the best films I have seen this year.” – New Empress Magazine
“Dimensions was shown at the Cambridge Film Festival a couple of months ago. It deserves a much wider audience.” – EveryFilm2011
Our teaser is now subtitled in 18 languages! Please share it…
Members of the cast, with Sloane and Ant, before the screening. Image courtesy of www.catchesides.co.uk
Yesterday evening Dimensions screened, as part of the 31st Cambridge Film Festival, to a packed out house. The showing sold out within a day of tickets being on release, so an additional late night showing was added (Thursday 22nd September, 10.30pm). As that second screening is now almost sold out, a third screening has been added – Saturday 24th September at 5pm. Details are here.
As you can imagine, it has been a hectic few days for Sloane and I. We’ve received so many lovely emails and messages about the film, so before we dash off to this evening’s screening, I wanted to share a few of the ‘Twitterviews’ we received regarding the film…
“Congratulations@dimensionsmovie ! Currently the biggest seller @CamFilmfest (in terms of seats sold per screening), better even than TTSS!” @camfilmfest
‘What a marvelous film! Can I have 700 films like Dimensions rather than one $200m blockbuster?” @martinhollis
Well, it’s been quite the week as we gear up for the Cambridge Film Festival! The cast & crew screening at the BFI was great fun and it was lovely to see so many people who were such a huge part of making the film. The only downside is that Sloane and I really didn’t get enough time to chat to everyone, so apologies for that.
Yesterday, Sky News ran a story about the film. We received emails from well-wishers as far away as Malaysia. Sloane and I can’t begin to explain how much these messages of support mean to us! You can watch the report here (it will load up in a window near the top of the article)…
There are still a few tickets left for the Thursday, 22nd September screening (10.30 pm at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse) – Sloane and I will be there, so please do come and say ‘hi’ to us.
Sloane and I are talking at the Creative Front / Wired ‘The Price of Storytelling’ event on Wednesday, 21st September. If you are interested in films and filmmaking, then this promises to be an interesting afternoon of speakers and round-table discussions.
On Monday 19th September, Sloane and I will be talking on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire at around 12.20pm.
Last but not least – we are a whisker away from 10,000 views for the teaser trailer on youtube – please help us reach that number by spreading the link (and don’t forget, it is subtitled in 18 languages, so share across the world). Thank you!
The teaser trailer now has subtitles in 18 languages. I was going to list them, but then I thought “Where’s the fun in that?” So, if you would like to know then click on the link below. It would be great if you could share the link with friends in other countries!
Other quick updates are:
The first screening (21st September) at the Cambridge Film Festival sold out – evidently within 24 hours of tickets going on sale. There are still some tickets for the screening on the 22nd. Info is here.
We do have some spare seats for our London screening (Southbank) at 1pm on Sunday 11th September. This is primarily a cast & crew, journalist and blogger screening, but we will allocate spare seats to others on a first come first served basis. EMail info@dimensionsthemovie.com if you want to attend (and let us know how many seats you would like).
Sloane and I recorded an interview with Sky News yesterday. Camilla Rutherford (who plays ‘Jane’, Stephen’s mother) was also interviewed. We will let you know when it will air (probably Friday 9th, repeating every hour). We also have a BBC interview coming up, plus various others – we will let you know details as soon as we do.
Apart from that – we’ve managed to catch terrible colds, so are sneezing a lot and working at a reduced speed. Plenty of vitamins and we will be back to full power soon.
From the cast & crew: A special preview screening of Dimensions will take place in aid of the Moray Society, at Gordonstoun (Elgin, Scotland) on 11 May. For tickets (£10) pls email mailto:dimensions.moray@hotmail.co.uk 19 days ago
From the cast & crew: Super excited, proud and stunned to announce we just won Best Film 2012 at the London Independent Film Festival! 26 days ago
