The Streams of Co-conciousness
A student visits her Ph.D. program mentor, as part of post-graduate studies in psychology, but her real intentions are motivated by extremely distant and dark childhood memories.
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Genre: psychological drama / thriller / horror.
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B. R. TatalovicWriter
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Project Type:Short Script
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Number of Pages:15
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Country of Origin:United States
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Language:English
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First-time Screenwriter:No
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Student Project:No
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The International Horror Hotel Festival (2018)Cleveland, OH
Best Short Script (finalist / nominated)
B. R. Tatalovic (a.k.a. Bruno Tatalovic), Serb-American motion picture artist and media educator. Immigrated to the United States from Yugoslavia in 1988 (as 22-year old). In his 20s and 30s worked as: union steelworker, milling machinist, VHS rental clerk, and home repairs "handy man". Known today as: multimedia artist, screenwriter, and film producer/director/actor.
As Sarah K. Reece points out, "co-consciousness is a term used to describe the experience of someone with multiplicity, where more than one part is aware of what is going on". A person with DID (a.k.a. multiple personality disorder), shows very high levels of dissociation - both in identity and memory, which usually means that they are amnesiac whenever a different part is out.
My short script takes on individuals' state of mind, PTSD and child abuse. It's a hybrid script, or harsh-reality psychological drama, asking questions and having an open ending, and calling for various interpretations and intellectual conversations. The characters and their actions mirror certain problems in our societies - the problems that need more coverage and new solutions.