This film follows two men in a gay relationship, each of them struggling with the horrors of death and aging. Jaimie discovers a kind of new, awakened sexuality as his mind is expanded by the telesynthesizing manta-ray.

 

 

When Lucien and Jaimie, two people in an age-difference relationship, return to Lucien’s childhood home following the death of his brother, it’s supposed to be a kind of catharsis, maybe, a go odbye for Lucien to what’s left of his broken childhood, his fucked-up adolescence. But the past, of course, isn’t ready to let go of Lucien. Not while he’s still hiding his terrible secret. Jaimie, meanwhile, is discovering radical new versions of himself, oracular visions of the future induced through inter-dimensional psychedelics.  

 

Dead memories,

A haunted house,

A telesynthesizing manta-ray:

This and more is waiting for the wolf pups.

 

 

Through the language of horror films we admire, such as Suspiria and Hellraiser, Wolf Pupwill explore the ever-presence of death, the pain you feel in your bones looking over your own shoulder. Through CG and prosthetics, the film will incorporate  elements of “body-horror” as well, in the tradition of David Cronenberg and Andrzej Żuławski, to convey the sense of dreadful artifice implicit in the human-body-experience.

 

 

Major sections of the film will be animated in 3D modeling programs. We have an incredible team of animators with years of experience to create this other world, adjacent to but right on top of our own.   The CG sections will be visually thrilling, colorful, and, in their own way, horrifying. The artificial world of images will crash up against the live-action world of the present in a totally unique way to Wolf Pup. It’s a novel and imaginative thing we can’t wait for you to see

 

The film is loosely lifted from selected writings, stories, and art of the writer, painter, filmmaker, and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz. The shape and the relationships of the story are inspired by his work, as are we. Wojnarowicz’s work is fire, and ours is a plastic bag overhead, lifted by its heat. 

 

 

As this is a student thesis film, much of the crew is made up of the talented film students at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts that Dante has met along the way. We’ve assembled an amazing group of talented people, who you can see under the “The Team” section, who have already put hundreds of hours into this project.

 

Sage will be playing Jaimie!

 

     

 

We’ve gotten extremely lucky with our location, the abandoned house of a former hoarder, now owned by a wonderful woman. The house, as you can see in photos we’ve taken there, is beautiful and messy, and exactly what we had in mind while writing the script—it’s hard to imagine the film taking place anywhere else at this point.