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optimistcreations is a small independent london-based production company set up by sebastian michael to pursue projects in digital filmmaking, theatre and cross-media. so far we've made a couple of short films, there's a fairly ambitious theatre project in development, and we're about to embark on our first low-budget feature film.

more info on all of these on optimistcreations.com

this is our cruxy digital content platform which we will be developing as new work emerges over the coming weeks and months:

available here now is our new short film THE STUDY OF BUNKERS & MOUNDS IN A TEMPERATE CLIMATE (RELATIVELY SPEAKING) in two formats, as an MPEG4 and, with a higher resolution and bigger file size, as a quicktime movie. apart from the preview you get on both versions you can also watch the two trailers CELTIC TWILIGHT (30 seconds) and IF I WAS YOU (90 seconds), and if you want to go back to the point where it all started, you can even download the screenplay.

the study of bunkers & mounds in a temperate climate (relatively speaking)

OFFICIAL SELECTION 60TH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL LOCARNO 2007

"HIGHLY COMMENDED" - TCM Classic Shorts Competition 2006

Following an argument with his wife, Chris loses himself in the Scottish Highlands where he finds himself confronted with some perplexing architecture, and the equally intriguing appearance of Spencer: is he just a local lad with a sense of the absurd or, as he claims, an alien studying the natural and man-made landscape features of the area?

When Spencer suggests to Chris that where he comes from they have developed ways of connecting with each other that are far evolved from anything he knows, Chris’s unease grows. But so does his curiosity.

As the night envelops the Loch, Chris and Spencer embark on an experience that may or may not be out of this world...

James Watson, whose CV covers numerous feature films and TV appearances, most recognisably among them Dr McEwan in RTE's long-running Fair City and Duncan Idaho opposite William Hurt in Dune, plays Chris, and Gary Grant, for several years a familiar face to British and Australian TV audiences as DC Riley in The Bill, appears as Spencer.

preview and download as MPEG4 or as QUICKTIME MOVIE

watch CELTIC TWILIGHT, the 30-second trailer watch IF I WAS YOU, the 90-second trailer download the screenplay

or go to

optimistcreations.com

for loads more info on the production, including stills, blog, screenings and updates, or to get hold of the DVD which comes complete with subtitles in english, italian and german, as well as both trailers and a couple of stills slide shows.

also available to download now:

as something of an experiment we're also featuring the first instalments of sebastian's novel ANGEL as a v-book, so you can download them to your ipod or computer and listen to them at your leisure. if you prefer reading a book to having it read to you, download it as an e-book.

and we've also added NICO SAVES THE NIGHT on here, this is a one-minute handmade film shot on a simple sony handycam and cut together on a powerbook over a few days round new year's eve. it's a humorous little tale with a surrealist lilt in which nico has to go and visit the time master in order to get all the clocks in the world moving again so that new year's celebrations can happen...

(OFFICIAL SELECTION ONE-MINUTE FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL AARAU SWITZERLAND 2007)

so much for now, more soon.

the optimist