Wormtooth Nation: steampunk meets Shakespeare (Kilala.nl (Cailin Coilleach)) by Cailin Coilleach

"Sam and I used to go walking together, down in the deeps, where no one else ever goes. It's the sounds that always fascinated me. Turn off your flashlight and listen and you can hear old machines nobody remembers, humming and clacking away in dark corners and between the walls. We used to go hunting for them, for fun. We rarely found any."

Imagine if you will an underground city inhabited by countless people. The origins of the city are long forgotten and no one remembers how it all began. The only thing we know is that the city must keep on running and that each has his own task in this. There is a natural order to everything. Yet there are rumors! Rumors of an outside where everyone can be free, whatever "free" means. The sky is supposedly "infinite", yet we have no clue what that means. Besides, what does it matter if you've forgotten again tomorrow?

Such a world is portrayed in the indie film Wormtooth Nation (aka The sky is free). The crew had a total budget of around $5000 and managed to make a feature length movie that mixes a steampunk setting with William Shakespeare's A midsummer's night dream. I'm quite impressed with what they've managed to make!

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