HERE contains a series of brief interludes: fictional tales of mythical explorers who map the land in fantastic ways. One imagines the land to be a vast sea and designs ships that might sail upon it. Another devises a navigational method using the clouds instead of the stars. A third creates maps that are actual-size. And so on.

These interludes are the story’s dreams.

They will be illustrated in collaboration with a number of well-known avant-garde and experimental filmmakers – explorers themselves – who will be sent to a series of extraordinary landscapes around the world to “map” them, using their own idiosyncratic methods.

As these mythical stories are heard in poetic voiceover, cinematic renderings of fantastic landscapes will overtake the screen – some time-lapse, some abstract, others vivid and still.

Through organic visual transitions, the interludes will weave seamlessly in and out of the film, expanding its texture, themes, emotional impact and cinematic vocabulary. With them, HERE follows a tradition of combining compelling drama with creative expressiveness that began with such now-classic independent films as MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO, WINGS OF DESIRE, MY LIFE AS A DOG and BREAKING THE WAVES. They allow HERE a dreamlife as rich and vivid as our own while uniting disparate cinematic traditions, deepening the project’s artistic integrity, expanding its audience and intensifying the viewer’s experience of its story and themes.