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With Factory Drop, I wanted to tell a captivating story and create a movie with powerful images which takes the audience into a different world. Factory Drop was inspired by various sources. Firstly, I am fascinated by the science fiction cinema of the 70s and 80s with its dark and expressive visions of the future. Additionally, I love silent films and was determined to create a movie without dialogues. The idea for the screenplay came to me during the Corona lockdown. The loss of art and culture preoccupied me during that time. I often found myself thinking about cinematic dystopias like 1984, where people are deprived of their freedom. Although Factory Drop takes us to a fictional world, the film reflects the sad reality that we live in a divided world. But mainly it revolves around the feeling that emotions, art, music, and dance are essential to us as human beings. These creative expressions have a transformative power and can give us hope and light in a dark world. Even amidst darkness, there is always a glimmer of hope.
Country: Germany
Webpage: https://www.manusarts.de/kopie-von-über-uns-2
Petja Pulkrabek works as a director, screenwriter, co-CEO, and producer at ManusArts. He studied Film and Television at the Media Academy Hamburg and has realized a variety of short films, com-mercials, and cultural projects. His works include the award-winning short film "Occasus" (2016) and the science fiction dance film "Factory Drop" (2024), both of which received support from the MOIN Film Funding Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and Nordmedia. At the Berlinale 2024, he partici-pated in the workshop "Fit for the EFM," organized by the Film and Media Office Lower Saxony. As co-festival director of the Move the North Festival, he also oversees a variety of international cul-tural projects. Currently, he is involved in the development of several films and series.
In the year 2118, the Factory reigns, numbing all emotions - until one day, a...
