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DREAM WRITING IN COLOUR
By Miles Crossman

GENRE: Fantasy
LOGLINE:

Megalomaniac construction foreman Michael must work with others if he is to prevent becoming a part of the scenery after being trapped inside a landscape artist’s body of work.

SYNOPSIS:

After a construction accident, Michael must go to an art therapy class to deal with two dimensional painted images that are plaguing his vision. There he meets standoffish Lindsay who, addled by visions of her late father, has nothing to say outside of her cryptic one-liners. Despite attempts to use his artistic style, but is stymied by the instructor Samael, who insists on the method taught in class. Michael decides to hone his artistry of building design alongside his art therapy class.

Following Lindsay's clues helps him discover that every location he goes to is preceded by a painting of Samael's on the wall: From the university grounds to the streets he walks and even into his home. Michael see's that focusing on Samael's teachings only exasperate his visions, but concentrating on his drafting alleviates them. Confronting Samael proves his worst fears correct; he is trapped inside the landscape painters body of work and literally must draw himself out with his architectural drafting style before he becomes a part of the teachers surrealist scenery.

As he races to escape, Michael recognizes Lindsay as the daughter of the man killed on his construction site years ago. Michael steps outside of his body, seeing all moments of time simultaneously in the form of paintings, thereby realizing that his current reality is a construct created to deal with his remorse for Lindsay's father's death as he lays dying from a similar injury. He pulls himself through the painting of himself dying in the initial accident where Lindsay is frantically trying to save the man who killed her father's life as a first responder.

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