The Impetus for “Spin of Fabrications”

Spin began as a hobby.  About five years ago, the idea entered my mind to make an art film.  At the time, I had no ambition to pursue a career in film.  I only desired to make something beautiful, for its own sake.  I was about twenty-one years old at the time.  It seemed to me that most movies were not really tapping the potential of film as an art form.  Even with the rise of independent film, commercialism nearly always won out.  Needless to say, movies are expensive to produce.  That expense usually necessitates a certain appeal to a broad market.  Indie films were successfully finding smaller target markets, but even those films (if they were successful) were bowing to commercialism at the expense of art.  By looking at film as a hobby, akin perhaps to other expensive hobbies, such as golf or scuba diving, I saw the opportunity to create something remarkable.

“Spin of Fabrications” is an epic, poetic myth.  The screenplay draws heavily from the tradition of “poetic drama,” referencing in style the works of William Shakespeare and Bertolt Brecht.  In authoring the script, I also utilized the technique called “stream-of-consciousness” writing, where the words on the page leapt unhindered from the constraints of 'meaning.'  The marriage of these two methods, poetic drama and "stream-of-consciousness" writing, generated situations and dialogue that are very “dreamlike.”

Dreaming, in my opinion, is the artistic expression of our unconscious.  I say artistic, because dreams, in my experience, tend toward esoteric means of expression.  Every individual, whether expert or layperson, will interpret the strange, often absurd experiences of the dreaming mind in wholly different ways.  In this sense, the dream is the perfect mediator of our deepest concerns, which dare not express themselves directly.  The dreaming mind is the human brain at its most profound and, simultaneously, most instinctual - at once the philosopher and the animal.

While the words of the screenplay were “stream-of-consciousness,” thereby mimicking the phenomena of the unconscious mind, the overall form of the script was carefully constructed, inspired by specific philosophical questions and the various ‘answers’ that have been offered throughout time.  If I succeeded, the viewer will share in my dreams, interpreting every detail in ways unique to that viewer.  It is my hope that this collective dream-experience will inspire collective introspection, leading to honest discussion of the human condition.  Oh, and I hope it will be entertaining.

-Rio Veradonir
director, “Spin of Fabrications”