Strange and Delightful Trailer for the Quirky Sci-Fi Film STRAWBERRY MANSION
The first trailer has been released for a weird-looking indie sci-fi movie titled Strawberry Mansion. This movie looks insanely strange, but at the same time, awesomely delightful.
The film set in a world where the government records and taxes dreams. The story follows a dream auditor who ends up on a wild cosmic journey through the life and dreams of an older eccentric. Since the film takes place in dreams, you can expect some fun and wacky madness.
In the not-too-distant future, an all-seeing surveillance state conducts “dream audits” to collect taxes on the unconscious lives of the populace. Mild-mannered government agent James Preble (Kentucker Audley) travels to a remote farmhouse to audit the dreams of Arabella “Bella” Isadora (Penny Fuller), an eccentric, aging artist. Entering Bella’s vast VHS archive, which contains a lifetime of dreams, Preble stumbles upon a secret that offers him a chance at love—and hope for escape. Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney’s playfully surreal romantic fantasy envisions a world not so different from our own: a glitchy digital dystopia where every human experience is monetized—where even our unconscious minds have been colonized by advertising.
With its wildly expressive color schemes and inventive dreamscapes, Strawberry Mansion also conjures an optimistic future through a retreat to our analog past. Audley and Fuller are disarmingly funny as the intergenerational (and interdimensional) lovers, while Grace Glowicki is affecting as the young Bella of Preble’s dreams. Electronic musician Dan Deacon scores this strange vision with shimmering synths and hypnotic strings.
Strawberry Mansion arrives later this year. Watch the trailer and tell us what you think!