Mr Toomey obsessively tears paper to control his childhood monsters, but when he wakes mid-flight to Boston to find most of the other passengers disappeared, he must confront the paper nightmare which threaten to rip everything apart.
A classic Stephen King miniseries is re-envisioned in this radical collage animation experiment by Greek director, Aristotelis Maragkos: A group of passengers aboard a routine flight to Boston wake up to find themselves alone on the plane. Things get even worse when they land and find a dead world, empty of all other human life. Unfortunately, one of the passengers, Craig Toomey is having a mental breakdown -- which summons the mysterious creatures known as the Langoliers.
Mr Toomey has an important business meeting in Boston, but he dreads the thought of arriving. The only relief from the screams of his father in his traumatic dreams of childhood, is obsessively tearing paper - ripping it into strips. When he wakes on his flight, there seems to have been a tear in reality as most of the other passengers have vanished. When the survivors land, the airport is eerily empty of life, like a blank page. Something is coming to rip this weird paper purgatory of the mind apart: Monsters only Mr Toomey can confront.
Footage from the 1995 Stephen King TV movie The Langoliers is edited, printed and animated into a paper nightmare.
- Year2021
- Runtime64 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryGreece, United Kingdom
- PremiereAustralian Premiere
- DirectorAristotelis Maragkos
- ScreenwriterAristotelis Maragkos
- ProducerAristotelis Maragkos
- EditorAristotelis Maragkos
- Sound DesignGiorgos Ramadanis
- MusicAmulets, Randall Taylor
Mr Toomey obsessively tears paper to control his childhood monsters, but when he wakes mid-flight to Boston to find most of the other passengers disappeared, he must confront the paper nightmare which threaten to rip everything apart.
A classic Stephen King miniseries is re-envisioned in this radical collage animation experiment by Greek director, Aristotelis Maragkos: A group of passengers aboard a routine flight to Boston wake up to find themselves alone on the plane. Things get even worse when they land and find a dead world, empty of all other human life. Unfortunately, one of the passengers, Craig Toomey is having a mental breakdown -- which summons the mysterious creatures known as the Langoliers.
Mr Toomey has an important business meeting in Boston, but he dreads the thought of arriving. The only relief from the screams of his father in his traumatic dreams of childhood, is obsessively tearing paper - ripping it into strips. When he wakes on his flight, there seems to have been a tear in reality as most of the other passengers have vanished. When the survivors land, the airport is eerily empty of life, like a blank page. Something is coming to rip this weird paper purgatory of the mind apart: Monsters only Mr Toomey can confront.
Footage from the 1995 Stephen King TV movie The Langoliers is edited, printed and animated into a paper nightmare.
- Year2021
- Runtime64 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryGreece, United Kingdom
- PremiereAustralian Premiere
- DirectorAristotelis Maragkos
- ScreenwriterAristotelis Maragkos
- ProducerAristotelis Maragkos
- EditorAristotelis Maragkos
- Sound DesignGiorgos Ramadanis
- MusicAmulets, Randall Taylor