WE ARE SEEKING FINISHING FUNDS FOR OUR SHORT FILM "KING OF ONEIROS" 

THE STORY:

Araihc started his life early on connected with an amazing girl named Chiara that seem to mirror who he was.  After a tragic accident Chiara passes away, fueled with great regret Chiara’s lover, longs to find closure in saying his peace to her.  He decides to descend into his dreams and spend one last day with her, assuming that he would wake up shortly after.  Araihc does not awaken instead he is told he had died.   He is brought forth to those that play god of all existence temping him power over the stars at the cost of his hearts desire.  Araihc is thrusted upon a world that tests his core and allows him to remember who he is and find Enlightenment as a Lucid Dreamer. He finds wholeness that the love he lost never dies and that it is held within. 

BEHIND THE STORY:

This story “King Of Oneiros” was written and directed by Dylan Howard and is based on a one of the first lucid dreaming experiences he had when he was younger. 

This dream appeared to have lasted for days in long cycles, beginning and ending within the dream. He was in love with a girl that he had felt known for all time without question. Overall it was an amazing experience to have the epiphany of awareness within a dream.  Oneiros is a greek word for “The Dream” king of the dream a title gained by fixing a broken world filling it with light.  During the years that followed Dylan has accumulated years of writings based on his lucid dreaming experiences. This Film is a short accumulation of much grander concepts, like sacred geometry, Equality of the genders, and the beauty and sovereignty of the “Now Moment” and the human spirit. "It has been the driving force behind my passion to be a filmmaker, showing the magic of immeasurable possibility in imagination." D.H.

Our goal when finished, is to inspire imagination and spiritual freedom in many different forms through the depth of this project".  The story will remain an open interpretation for people to draw new stories and positive ideas from. At a deeper level we will inspire positive consciousness, living within an infinite expressive universe with all its interconnection. This story is intended to be told in a kind of visual meditation similar to the inspirations of the more recent "Tree Of Life" by Terrence Malick, "Baraka" by Ron Fricke, and "Samsara" By Ron Frick. Dylan has been writing and painting his dreams literally, now he has filmed it and with your help expressing it with the breath taking power of the moving image.

THE DESIGN:

"King Of Oneiros" is a love story that takes place within a lucid dream.  Creating a dream world of possibilities has been an amazing undertaking in design, bringing outer worldly characters into physicality and playing their parts as guides and imitators.  

 Much inspiration for the dream world architectures come from the book “Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self”  by Robert Waggoner The book is the account of an extraordinarily talented lucid dreamer who goes beyond the boundaries of both psychology and religion. In the process, he stumbles upon the Inner Self. 

Much of the Character & Costume Design comes from scared geometry and duality in the form of body painting, literally the characters wear what they deeply are.   Many inspirations have come from artist Alex Grey's life works, and gods & goddesses from Ancient Sumerian, Egypt, and Ancient Greece.   We have had the honor working with one of the top body paint makeup artists from Canada, miss Millisa Meresky & amazing hair designer Aleksandra Mikolajzcyk.   

Check out Millisa Meresky's previous works on her website:

http://www.m3artistry.com

Many of the featured props and costume pieces have been custom made and tailored to re-sculpt the characters to reflect aspect of the dreamer himself.  For a year we have been fortunate enough to work with amazing artists from the online art collective of Etsy.com in creating some amazing Items that look legendary in nature.  Our most featured Item is the "Crystal Crown Of Dreams" warn by our split Emperor.  Its made from harden leather from two amazing artists, Aurelius Rune and Azalyne Raven at "Feathery Leathery"  A huge thank you to them and their amazing work!  We will be featuring other artists in our upcoming updates.

You can check them out on their shop site:  http://www.etsy.com/shop/FeatheryLeathery

These characters were brought to life at a much grander scale, giving characters amazing textural detail and subtextual insights, they wear what that deeply are. 

SInce dreams are usually experienced hyper visually we will be literally rebuilding environments surrounding the story using compositing and painting in new life into each scene.  We are also working with different elemental qualities in environments the connect and represent the subconscious emotion reactions that are taking place at the core of the dreamer.  

The environment constantly mirrors the consciousness of the dreamer for in this instance the environment is the dreamer, they are one flow.  The core theme of the film is Unity, the one, the still eternity, the mirror of wonders, the underlined thread the connects all things as one, the dreamer is literally the way shower of conscious evolution. The Lucid dreamer is at the forefront of all possibility of experience itself.    

 WE’D LOVE TO HAVE YOU BE A PART OF THIS!

Thank you for considering our project. We’d love to have you become part of the Oneiros Team. We think this film has massive potential and I hope you’re as excited about it as we are.

Thank you for supporting independent filmmaking. It takes the generosity of a lot of people to make these projects a reality. You're contribution, no matter the size, is a big deal to us.

THE PRODUCTION:

We have receive generous cooperation from the Rhode Island Film Office as well as the NYC Mayors Office and all other locations believing in the uniqueness of this project. So many have donated their time to this project. So many have helped us get this far to completing this collective dream. So many having their best performances as some of their most favorite roles of their early careers.

King Of Oneiros has been shot on the Red Scarlet by Steven Latta and his amazing Team, capturing the greatest detail, in all of our design especially our painted characters.

Check out more previous work of his here:

'www.stevenlatta.com'

We Are featuring Music of Matt Hartke, Dan Chase, Helios, Rudy Adrian, and Hammock. Other music and sound design has been composed by Xiren Wang &  Matt Hartke.

Special Effects, Greenscreen, and compositing are being done by Resight & Siddharth Gupta.

Set Design has been orchestrated by Rocío Giménez & Dylan Howard

The Film has been on an ambitious journey spanning 5 states and over 11 locations within New York, and Rhode Island including:

• Central Park, NY
• Castle On The Hudson, NY
• Hackley School, NY
• Shepards Hall of City College Of New York, NY
• The Islamic Spiritual Center, NY
• Windmill Studios, NY
• Cinema World Studios, NY 
• Blithewold Mansion, RI
• Narragansett,R
• Providence, RI
• Rodger Williams Park Temple to Music, RI  

• Maine
• Vermont
• New Jersey
• Rhode Island
• New York

The Cast & Crew of "KING OF ONEIROS"