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A Sprinkle of Stardust: Rugby Money

by Witold Tietze

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    All dreams are about 8 seconds long, or so they say. No sense of time in misty other-worlds. They tend to come right before you wake up, too. It's funny how the mind knows when the body wants to rise, and can set in motion a complex narrative in sufficient time to allow that 8 second gap.

    You try creating a virtual world, characters to inhabit it, stories for their lives to follow, then encode it as an 8 second video file, then press 'Play. Can you do that before you even know it?

    They say other worlds don't need to live as ours does. Some say it's all a game, others that it is some sort of test. What are the rules, really? Do we know them?

    There's a line that we follow. Nobody's dared cross it yet, or walk against the traffic, or jumped to another road. Why is that? Is it that we can't? Is it that we won't? Is it that there's nothing else, nothing on the other side? Maybe the others can tell us if that's so. Do they move along that line? Do they walk down the straight and narrow as we do? Do they walk?

    8 seconds isn't a lot of time, but then, when you don't need time, it's probably an eternity...     ... more
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1.
Act One: People 28:00
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Act Two: Places 22:00
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Dreams of the Alternate - An Examination of the Cognitive Subconscious by Kelly Nero (Chapter One: Society Cannot Dream Like Me) 05:59
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Coming Soon... 01:39
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about

"Just a sprinkle of stardust, and a whisper... Go to sleep, everything is alright." (Roy Orbison, In Dreams)

A while back, I needed an idea. Some spark of inspiration that sometimes seems to come only in dreams. A Sprinkle of Stardust is what I got. An examination of the cognitive subconscious, to quote Kelly Nero. But it's more than that.

Sprinkle has been described as the first fantasy series to stem from BTR. In a way, this is true. But it's fantasy laced with reality. Rational, scientific, explainable. I suppose it lies somewhere within that realm of the fantastical that makes the works of Bunuel, Lynch, Jodorowsky and others of their ilk so tantalising, so addictive. It's in dreams.

Like the works of those seminal artists, those innovative minds, there is a human condition to be explored in Sprinkle. As much as the series is about a collision between dreams and reality - a collision which sometimes skews the boundary between those two worlds and entwines them in ways too complex to grasp at first sight - it is about four central characters. Four people in search of a fixed reason to exist in a malleable framework of a world no longer always in their control to perceive. These people are looking for an out, but they're finding each other. Their interactions are significant, their decisions influential.

We're going places, finding new territory to explore, to investigate. While it is true that we are no longer in a realm beyond traditional recognition, it is equally important to remember that nothing is ever entirely clear in dreams.

"I close my eyes and drift away, into the magic night..."

Witold Tietze, June 2003

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released May 21, 2004

Kelly Nero: David Hutchison
Rhonda Burrows: Caroline Frewin
Cary Newton: Kane Major
Mitchell Lang: Witold Tietze
Stephanie Leach: Tiffany Melius
The Old Woman: Susannah Tiller
Trent Marlowe: Jacob Aldridge
Arthur Guthrie: Matthew Kopelke

Post-Production: Matthew Kopelke
Music: Trey Lane
Artwork: Marshall Browne
Production Assistant: David Hutchison
Producer: Matthew Kopelke
Director: Witold Tietze

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BTR Productions met regularly between January 1999 and December 2005 to record new audio and video adventures that explored the possibilities of the science-fiction genre. This is their collected works.

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