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FAKE CLOUDS
Coming of age in the shadows of a nuclear power plant's monolithic cooling towers becomes a singular threat to a young boy's mortality who, nevertheless, finds humor in moving next to something so potentially
dangerous. The anthropomorphic villain in this short tale is inflated in an adolescent imagination with the power to create a catastrophic "China Syndrome" and the antithetical synthetic clouds that drift serenely through the protagonist's young mind.
PROJECT HISTORY
The very definition of the phrase, "labor of love" was tested throughout the filming and editing of Fake Clouds, a seven minute parable that took nearly
three years to come to life. But, it was worth the wait. Shot entirely in the 16mm format, film was processed as funds became available and the cast, crew, writer and musicians all worked for the satisfaction of telling this tale.
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All production costs came from the director’s thinning pockets supplemented by her continuing work on international documentaries. Fake Clouds was shot
on location around Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island and Limerick Nuclear Power Plants, two of the several facilities named as possible terrorist targets by the office of Homeland Security. While filming, cast and crew were shocked to see how many homes were actually settled right around those giant plants, never far from a continual source of electricity but equally
close to potential disaster.
Based on a 1996 short story, Fake Clouds is a visual dichotomy between suburban lifestyles and uranium stewardship and a weird, possibly overexposed, snapshot of a thirteen-year old boy's reality.
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