About me: The Great Holstenwall Project is an ongoing experiment in the alternate reality of surrealist cinema. Ask anyone involved in filmmaking who has seen and appreciated the highly influential 1919 silent classic 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' and it's likely they will tell you that they'd love the opportunity to be involved in a project like that.
The Idea: to encourage independent filmmakers to create a short film within the Caligarian landscape, a place of bizarre and sinister fairgrounds, unearthly cinemas, practitioners of the dark arts and strange beings "seen in captivity for the first time."
The Rules: The film can be about absolutely anything so long as it takes place in Holstenwall, the strange town where Francis takes us in 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'.
The Project: After the films have been accumulated, they will be judged and those selected put on a DVD.
Carl Mayer and Hans Janowitz are credited with writing the original scenario.
For those who have never seen it...
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Here is an interesting piece. It is well done and fun to watch, but would not be a good fit as it is only a condensation of the 1919 film and not an original story.
We are looking for stories that stand on their own, regardless of recurring characters or coinciding events.
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