License: The movie “Elephants Dream” is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license. In short, this means you can freely reuse and distribute this content, also commercially, for as long you provide a proper attribution.© copyright Blender Foundation br br Directed by Bassam Kurdali br Produced by Ton Roosendaal br Written by Pepijn Zwanenberg br Starring Cas Jansen br Tygo Gernandt br Music by Jan Morgenstern br Release dates 2006 br Running time 10 min 54 sec br Language English br br Cast br br Tygo Gernandt - Proog br Cas Jansen - Emo br br Crew br br Ton Roosendaal - Producer br Bassam Kurdali - Director br Andy Goralczyk - Art director br Matt Ebb - Artist br Bastian Salmela - Artist br Lee Salvemini - Artist br Toni Alatalo - Technical director br Jan Morgenstern - Composer br br Plot: br "The story is very simple—I'm not sure you can call it a complete story even—It is about how people create ideasstoriesfictionssocial realities and communicate them or impose them on others. Thus Proog has created (in his head) the concept of a special placemachine, that he tries to "show" to Emo. When Emo doesn't accept his story, Proog becomes desperate and hits him. It's a parable of human relationships really—You can substitute many ideas (money, religion, social institutions, property) instead of Proog's machine—the story doesn't say that creating ideas is bad, just hints that it is better to share ideas than force them on others. There are lots of little clueshints about this in the movie—many little things have a meaning—but we're not very "tight" with it, because we are hoping people will have their own ideas about the story, and make a new version of the movie. In this way (and others) we tie the story of the movie with the "open movie" idea.