Rounding Cape Horn in a Dream

A sailor remembers sailing around Cape Horn in a dream.

  • Robert David Duncan
    Director
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5399017/
  • Robert David Duncan
    Animation
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5399017/
  • Robert David Duncan
    Writer
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5399017/
  • Robert David Duncan
    Producer
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5399017/
  • Robert David Duncan
    Key Cast
    "Sailor"
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5399017/
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short, Web / New Media
  • Genres:
    AI art, Machine learning, Adventure, Art, Video art
  • Runtime:
    30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    August 1, 2022
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital animation
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:4
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Robert David Duncan

My core training in acting is from the Stella Adler Studio in New York. I love acting and filmmaking and Vancouver where I now live is a beautiful place to make films. I am interested in the dramas, delights, passions and heartbreaks that take place in everyday interactions (or lack thereof) between ordinary people. Most of my films have dealt with human-scale issues such as tough choices, love, dreams, hope and finding meaning and fun in life. I love an underdog story! My motto is don't let anything get in the way of telling a story that might uplift someone - film it with your smartphone if that's what you have, but get it done and share it with the world.

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Director Statement

This film is an experimental animated art form using a neural network machine learning process to generate moving imagery based on written prompts and sometimes an initial starting image. I like to think of these silent shorts as "non-verbal narratives" in that there is a story implied by my intentions and communications with the machine learning process, but each viewer can interpret the story in their own way. In this film, what happens? Do they make it around the Horn? You get to decide... Enjoy!