Wolf Pup
by Dylan Cloud

Dylan Cloud
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Wolf Pup
by Dylan Cloud
Dylan Cloud
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This art-horror film about an age-difference relationship explores the process of image-corruption through the language of horror, CGI artifice, and telesynthesis.
This art-horror film about an age-difference relationship explores the process of image-corruption through the language of horror, CGI artifice, and telesynthesis.
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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.About The Project
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.
Incentives
$5
Become a Pup!
Become a wolf pup and get your name in the credits!
$15
Pup 2
Become an accredited donor and receive a digital copy of the film!
$25
Mona Pupisa
Get a digital drawing of yourself as a dog breed of your choosing! Will be done by the director for you.
Claimed: 4 of 20
$50
Sugar Baby Survival Kit
The Sugar Baby Survival kit includes a digital dog drawing, as well as a goody bag including essential materials, such as sugar baby candies and red lipstick!
$100
Ceramic Pup
Get a ceramic model of your own dog that the director will make by hand.
Claimed: 7 of 20
$250
Puppy Bowl
A combo of all the above listed items!
Claimed: 0 of 5
$500
Date with Director
Come on a date with the director and learn all about the film! You will get to ask Dante all your burning questions!
*The date will take place in New York City and the travel costs will not be covered by the production.
Claimed: 0 of 1
$1,000
Big Wolf
You will become the alpha Wolf in the pack! You will get your name in the credits as an Executive Producer as well as getting all of the other perks but the date with Dante. But who knows, maybe we can arrange a meeting...
Claimed: 0 of 1
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$5
Become a Pup!
Become a wolf pup and get your name in the credits!
$15
Pup 2
Become an accredited donor and receive a digital copy of the film!
$25
Mona Pupisa
Get a digital drawing of yourself as a dog breed of your choosing! Will be done by the director for you.
Claimed: 4 of 20
$50
Sugar Baby Survival Kit
The Sugar Baby Survival kit includes a digital dog drawing, as well as a goody bag including essential materials, such as sugar baby candies and red lipstick!
$100
Ceramic Pup
Get a ceramic model of your own dog that the director will make by hand.
Claimed: 7 of 20
$250
Puppy Bowl
A combo of all the above listed items!
Claimed: 0 of 5
$500
Date with Director
Come on a date with the director and learn all about the film! You will get to ask Dante all your burning questions!
*The date will take place in New York City and the travel costs will not be covered by the production.
Claimed: 0 of 1
$1,000
Big Wolf
You will become the alpha Wolf in the pack! You will get your name in the credits as an Executive Producer as well as getting all of the other perks but the date with Dante. But who knows, maybe we can arrange a meeting...
Claimed: 0 of 1
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