Our Wondrous Lost Lives
An experiment in gonzo filmmaking a total exploitation of lack of money & morals.
FRITZ - large guy, aged 18 - 30, preferable a comedian,
To play a quiet introverted charismatic "nerd" with deadpan humor.
MARGO - attractive, feisty actress with screen or method training,
To play a quick witted, extroverted, bossy busy body…
TEASER SYNOPSIS
An exploitation of our jackass, porn infested, infinite subcultures where everyone gets 15 seconds of fame on myspace, YouTube, twitter… maybe mainstream TV, but who watches that? We're all wired into this wireless world, no exceptions, no escape, this is our fate, paralyzed by our pursuits, forced into freedom, what future do we face?
SYNOPSIS
The film is a wicked love story following two polar 20-somethings - FRITZ, an introverted, cowardly, kind guy, and MARGO, a loud, quick witted, punkish girl, who have fallen off a cliff at a music festival.
MARGO decides to document their ordeal, filming their journey on Fritz personal organizer to sell their story of survival. FRITZ is more practical, survival is the key, but Margo so obsess with the filming she requires a retake of the "key scene" where her breaks her arm and saves her life in the key scene.
They stick together and meet a host of characters such as: THE SIREN who seduces guys into making porn; MYSPACE BANDS; JACKASS JOCKS who imitate bum fights; and the 2 FESTIVAL PROMOTERS, 16 year old pimpled faced pimps, who also run an exploitation video network over the net.
After getting lost in the cliffs and canyons, FRITZ and MARGO stumble through various locations exploring the lost memories of their purposeless lives such as waiting in traffic, working in a wasted job, stumbling home drunk, drowning in debt, and finally arguing with yourself at the age of sixty something.
The film is recursive, returning to the festival in the last act, which shows on the festival screen the "key scene" MARGO's life being saved as filming by THE SIRENS. The festival scene then sets up and explains why FRITZ and MARGO fall in the first place…
We're in preproduction to shoot a feature this summer from December on and off till possible mid March. Shooting around Melbourne and country Victoria.
Similar films and story's are:
Alice in Wonderland, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Into the Wild, Touching the Void, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, The Blair Witch, U Turn.
Auditions will be a screen test with another actor in the opposite role of Fritz or Margo, which will go for 2hrs.
Please email idimagination@yahoo.com.au
With a CV, headshots, and Links to show reel would be beneficial.
