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Synopsis
Reading his newspaper while waiting for a subway train, a man is approached by a bizarre concrete creature. They stare at each other, but before long the man dips his head back into his paper. To attract his attention, the figure begins to dance, forcing the man - still trying to ignore the creature - to flee. Paranoia ensues as the mysterious figure pursues our protagonist relentlessly.
Urban alienation is stylishly explored in this nightmarish about a man tormented by a large-scale urban entity. Soaked in seventies concrete modernism and making brilliant use of computer generated graphics, Terminus brings urban angst vividly to life as a man becomes aware of how both himself and the people who surround him remain haunted and pursued in their individual ways.
Terminus is a surreal statement about alienation. As stalking sculptures cast a long shadow over our protagonist Rob Carpenter and his increasing urgency to escape, it is easy to be immersed in Carpenter's paranoia and subsequent demise. In Carpenter's world everyone is being followed.
The director of Terminus is Trevor Cawood, a promo director for Spy Films. Trevor specializes in high concept visually driven filmmaking. As a director and former VFX supervisor, he has won numerous awards inclusive to being nominated at the 53rd and 51st Emmy Awards as well as garnering 3 Cilo golds and 1 silver in 2005. Trevor puts a lot of demands on himself artistically and loves to be part of the creative process.
He wrote Terminus with his brother Jason Cawood. the central concept being that: "people trying to function in their day to day, especially people who work in a daily grind. It's definitely a dark film." Trevor adds: "I like psychological films. Films that comment on who we are, and how we got there have always been my favorites. " I'd like to explore those themes in the future."
Terminus was produced with a crew no larger than 7 people, and was significantly programmed at this years Toronto International Film Festival.
The film was shot in and around Vancouver and Montreal with a DVX100 camera.
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