*(—from a strange, intense (undergone) dream. …
…
… —remember (half-) waking, thinking (half-) that this (—the concept) would be-make a great pitch for a series (television, or web). …
…
—multimedia format (sic)… —(part) live action (actors.—acting. … ), (part) animation (—cartoon.—stylised), (part) 360° video – VR experience. … ).
…
*[IMAGE]*
*[PART I. …
—(in) LIVE ACTION. (—real time). … ].
*the ‘scientist’-physicist. [—sic].
(—me. … ).
…
being treated.
(… —a (hospital-ward) bed (bound)—out on the open floor. (—military-corporate types-uni-formed… mill about. … )…
—a huge (industrial) cavernous space (metal(ic), and concrete),… —grey and blue (tone), and (with) white (bright.—neon-halogen) lights-lighting. …
feverish.
—dark, cavernous, warehouse/hangar space (—up. … —overhead, shadowed,… light-painted, metallic beams and rafters, &c. … ).
—a (—medical, technologic,… —psychiatric) research facility (of some kind). … ).
—being treated by a doctor (—medical-psychiat).
*(… —(think that) the ‘scientist’ recognises the doctor,—from their past (otherwise forgotten—?),… when the doctor was younger. (… —grey-greying now). … ).
—medical-psychological. treatment. (therapy-recouperat). (—compiling a, work-professional-competency, profile-evaluation… ).
*[memory (loss)… —a trauma of some kind? … ].
… —suspicion. …
—defiant of doctor (—of authority), the ‘scientist’ hacks computer, and records (of treatment) of doctor…
*[—an image. … —medical scan (an x-ray-negative). … —lit, in neon blue and white. (skeletal, and/or of the head (brain)). …
—has been elided-redacted (hidden-suppressed), in-from the records (official). … ].
—sabotages.
(records, and system. …
fast.—good with tech-computers. … ).
—an act. … —to the detriment (professional), when discovered by authorities, of both ‘scientist,’ and of the doctor. …
(… —scandal. enquiry. … —scape-goating. burying, &c. … ).
…
*[PART II. …
ANIMATED. (—a cartoon). … ].
…
—the ‘scientist’ and the doctor. …
—paired together.
by the authorities. … —to work a case-‘patient’. …
—tasked to treat a young woman (blond).
—for-with trauma (—PTSD).
…
*[… —an awkward, tense, ‘car’-‘pod’ journey, for both. to the house-home (… —in the country(side)) of the young woman. …
—to meet (with) her. for the first. …
*—along(-through) a (near-) future landscape (… —smooth rolling hills (neat-tended—artifice) and fields, ‘n’ such,… —neat trees – ‘motor’way (—long strip ‘v). …
(—night-time.—dark (purple)-black sky (outside-outwith the ‘car’-‘pod’… ). …
… —see strange creatures (alien?—strange-exaggerat arms-tentacles, domed-bulbous heads-headed,… large, strange-coloured eyes,—weird colours (fish-like))… —through the ‘car-‘pod’s’ window-port.
*(—the pod:
a white spherical vehicle (—no—visible—mean of propuls), with large, round porthole-viewing windows on either side. … ).
…
—in the background, on the ‘motor’way, … —other ‘pod’-vehicles,—moving quick-swiftly (silent… —? —maybe a… thrum (low)). … ].
*[—a SEQUENCE: …
… —strange, stylised cartoon animation (of characters, &c.,—with the actual voices. … ), …
—takes the place of LIVE ACTION. … ].
…
*[PART III. … ].
… —a new… method (technique-technologies) in the treatment of trauma (PTSD)—in the (re-)construction of memory(ies). …
—in-through part VR, part 360° (… —a video game. … ).
(… —play through memories-events, (re-)constructed from oral testimony (interview), analysis (psychoanalytic), part from brain-activity scanning (MRI, &c. … ). …
—‘rebuilt’ memories, in a film-game *(—interactive). …
—unpack, revisit-replay-rehearse, read, comprehend, &c. …
*[—real time-LIVE ACTION (—three caharcters-actors) – ANIMATION – VR/360°. … (real time frames the ANIMATION – VR/360°. … ). ].
*(…
… —something to do with the country home. (idyll. … —lost, betrayed, destroyed… by war(?),… by a parent-figure(?). … … ). and, particularly, a large country ORCHARD.—in summer (… —in memories of. … ). …
—apples.—become symbolic (sic.—meaningful. … ). … —become items (important—in-game. … ).
*[… … —through treatment of the young woman-‘patient’… —entering her mind memories (with her, in-through the film-game)—details (and ‘therapy’) of the ‘scientist’ revealed. … —(true nature of) relationship to the doctor, and the doctor’s own story. … ].
—?
…
Mark Bolsover is a freelance writer, living and working in Edinburgh. He has short experimental prose-poetry published, and forthcoming, in a number of international literary magazines. His piece, ‘eye contact (or,… —an only optical love),’ was a winner of the Into the Void Poetry Competition (2016). His debut Chapbook, IN FAILURE & IN RUINS—dreams & fragments, is published with Into the Void Press (Dublin & Toronto, May 2017).