Enter Mycel (2022) Movie Script
WARNING This project was created
under undeserving conditions and
therefore does not receive the
clearance to be called a "film".
Undeserving because the production
of a film usually not only devours
vast amounts of money, but also
leaves an enormous ecological footprint.
So now follows an acoustically
underscored sequence
of images that prides
itself on being "no-budget".
(tense instrumental music)
(water rushing in distance)
(tense musical accentuation)
(kayak grinding)
(tense musical accentuation)
(gear clanks on stone)
(tense instrumental music continues)
(tense musical accentuation)
(water rushing)
(fire crackling)
(swishing)
(man screams in pain)
(screaming continues)
(screaming in strong pain)
(quiet footseps approaching)
(screaming in distance)
(screaming continues)
(footseps on peeble)
(tense music continues without audio)
(rifle shot fires)
(tense music continues without audio)
(trunk opens)
(metal clanks)
(digging into soil)
(digging continues)
(digging continues)
(grass swishing)
(tense background music and no audio)
(water rushing in distance)
(tense musical accentuation)
(water rushing in distance continues)
(drone sound)
(old clock ticking)
(girl in room) My papa he buried himself.
(man in room) Did he
kill anyone before that?
(old clock ticking continues)
(man in room) Do you know
what the real strange thing
with all those shovelers is?
At first they all committed a murder.
And I'm not talking about
some calculated murder.
And no impulsive murder.
I'm talking about a
murder of purest conviction.
(slow piano background music)
(man in suit) Give me your shovel!
(both men groaning)
(man in room continues) A killing that
maybe only insects are able to commit.
Raw and without any empathy.
(metal smashing on flesh)
(man in room continues) This
is what this fungus does with us.
And this is what makes it
so incredibly dangerous.
(spherical background music)
It starts with a simple and
foremost very precise vision.
A purpose.
Destiny.
You yourself feel perfectly well with it.
But in reality... you're
already being affected.
It's in the water.
In the air we breathe.
In our food.
Very soon the whole
power grid will go down.
(electric crackling)
(matchstick crackles)
(man in room continues) People
are going crazy, getting paranoid.
(grinding on metal)
You cannot fight it.
(baby crying)
You change.
We all change.
(fly buzzing)
What does that mean?
(man in room continues)
We're all getting absorbed
until we're spun into one whole web
of cells and fibers.
(spherical breathing)
(man in room continues) One month from now
the world as we know it
won't exist anymore.
No!
Think about it.
It's always been part of our nature.
First you turn into a murderer.
Later you become part of the
largest living entity that's ever existed.
(clock striking)
It's our inevitable fate.
(spherical piano background music)
(alarm ringing)
(spherical piano
background music continues)
Fall
(pregnant woman breathing heavily)
Mama.
Mama, should I call papa?
Yeah!
(heavy breathing continues)
(doorbell buzzing)
(girl) There she is.
(heavy breathing continues)
- Hi. Hello there.
- Hello.
Yay! The baby's coming.
- Hello, Sonja!
- Hi!
Good to see you.
- How are you?
- I'm fine.
- Fine? Alright.
- Yeah.
- Hello Lena.
- (Lena) Hello.
- Is your papa not here?
- (Lena) No. I will call him again.
(midwife) Yeah. Give him another call.
Alright, Sonja.
Let's get you ready... Just a sec.
- Otherwise everything is going well.
- You're feeling good?
That's so good to hear.
Let's get you ready...
-Yeah.
- For this baby.
It's you're second child isn't
it? Everything's gonna be fine.
(Lena) Papa, where are you?
(midwife) Here we go.
(Lena) Traffic jam?
(midwife) Let's get you in
this nice and cozy bathtub.
(Lena) What traffic jam?
(water rushing)
(heavy breathing continues)
(Lena) Papa, the baby is coming now.
(midwife) Hey.
(Lena) Hurry!
(midwife) Will you take off those pants?
(water rushing continues)
(midwife) Very well.
The contractions are
coming every four minutes.
Okay let's check if your
cervix is already dilated.
Alrighty.
Where's Lena?
- Here I am.
- Lena, hello.
Would you be so kind to get your mama a cup
of hot tea? You may help us a little bit.
Or would you rather prefer something cold?
- (Sonja) Some water please.
- Some water.
- Listen, Lena!
- Yeah?
She would like some water instead. Bring
her a nice glass of cold water please.
Yeah.
Alright...
(glass clangs)
(water rushes)
(midwife) Temperature is fine?
- A little bit cooler.
- (midwife) Okay. Bit cooler.
A bit cooler. Perfect.
Very well.
Alright.
(water streaming)
(midwife and Sonja talking indistinctly)
(midwife) Perfect. Thank you.
(Lena) Welcome.
(midwife) Thank you.
(midwife) Here you go.
So exciting.
It's finally happening.
(Sonja sighing) Yeah.
Let me just check if
the heart rate is fine.
Here we go.
(streaming water continues)
- Ah yeah.
- (Sonja) Can you hear it?
Yeah. There it is.
Everything fine?
(midwife) Everything
fine. Everything alright.
- Can you hear it?
- (midwife) Yes, I hear it.
(midwife) As practiced. When
a contraction comes, exhale.
Inhale through your mouth
and exhale through the nose.
(water stops)
Perfect.
(Sonja breathing heavily)
- Perfect.
- (Sonja) Now it's starting.
Now it's starting.
(midwife) Exhale through your mouth
and inhale through the nose.
Repeat. Exhale through your
mouth. Your'e doing great. Perfect.
Then exhale.
In through the nose. Out through the mouth.
Perfect.
Later you will have a
re... an interval phase.
Okay?
Perfect.
Everything's alright.
Perfect.
(Sonja breathing heavily)
Perfect.
Perfect.
(heavy be a thing continues)
In through the nose and
again out through the mouth.
Phew. Somehow I'm
feeling a little bit dizzy.
(midwife) Your'e feeling dizzy?
(Sonja) yeah...
- (midwife) And nausea?
- (Sonja)... somehow weird.
(midwife) Yeah? Are you feeling sick now?
Aha. So you're not feeling fine?
Do we need to get out?
Wait.
(midwife) Should we
get you out of the tub?
Wait a second.
(starts hyperventilating)
(hyperventilating in distance)
(midwife in bathroom) Okay I
think we need to get you out, Sonja.
Come on! You can hold on to me.
Sonja. Take my arm! Come on!
Lena?
(Lena) Yeah?
(midwife) Lena, please.
Can you help us?
We need to get your mama out of the tub.
She needs to get into bed.
(midwife) Come on! Lay down.
It's your blood pressure.
Rest!
Sonja?!
I'm feeling so dizzy.
(Lena) Mama...
(midwife) We need to lay you down!
(midwife) La... Lena!
- (Lena) Yeah.
Lena, please call the ambulance. 144.
- (Lena) Yeah.
- (Midwife) Okay?
Tell them your address. 144.
Sonja?
(hyperventilating continues)
- (midwife) Sonja, you need to push!
- (Sonja) Something is wrong.
(dark drone sound)
(audio fading)
(midwife) Stay with me! Stay with me!
- (midwife) Sonja. Sonja.
- (Lena) Mama...
Sonja - Mama...
(midwife) It will be okay.
Lena...
Lena... can you please go outside
and watch for the ambulance?
So they will immediately
find their way up here.
(hyperventilating continues)
Perfect. Perfect...
Sonja. Sonja.
You need to push!
The baby is crowning. I can
see it's little head already.
There is the head.
Sonja, Sonja...
Yes. Great job!
Great job...
We're almost there.
yes, yes.
You're doing great.
Stay with me! Stay with me!
Stay with me, Sonja.
- (Lena) Nobody's here yet.
- (midwife) Nobody here? Okay.
- (midwife) Stay downstairs anyways!
- (Lena) Mama...
(midwife) Stay downstairs, so they
know where where they have to go.
Perfect.
Sonja?!
Sonja... Fuck!
(breathing fades)
Sonja?!
(breathing stopped)
- (midwife) FUCK.
- (Lena) What happened?
(midwife) Fuck. She has no pulse.
(tense background music playing)
Fuck.
(midwife stress fully sighing)
(midwife intensely breathing)
(Lena sobbing) Mama...
(Lena crying) Mama...
Mama!!!
What's wrong with her?
Mama!!!
(intense breathing continues)
(Lena sobbing in despair)
(music fading)
Sonja. Please!
Sonja...
(running footsteps)
How are you? How...
how's the baby?
How's your mother?
(father) Where is your mother?
Where is your mother, Lena?
Check the bathroom.
(dark background music)
Why are you lying on the floor?
Sonja?!
Why is she lying on the floor?
(spoken words reverbing)
(no audio)
(reverb reaches climax)
(soft synth background music)
(father sobbing in pain)
(father crying out loud)
(man speaking indistinctly
on hand's free device)
(synth music continues)
(taxi driver speaking Russian)
(men indistinctly arguing in Russian)
(arguing continues)
(car door opens)
(urn rattles)
(footesteps)
Papa?
(Lena) What about Matilda?
Your mother would like to go out to deck.
(synth music fades)
(baby crying)
(slamming)
(car door opens)
(baby crying continues)
(baby crying fades)
Come in now!
(Lena) Please come in now.
Matilda is inside as well.
Matilda huh?!
(father) Matilda took your mother from us.
(slapping)
(door bangs)
(baby sobbing)
(people laughing in distance)
(distorted baby-crying)
(dark athomspheric)
(normal baby-crying)
(distorted baby-crying continues)
(no audio)
(distorted baby-crying continues)
(normal baby-crying)
(Lena) Where did you go shopping?
(Lena's friend) At Ikea. This
is where I bought all that stuff.
You have to come along
sometime. It's really cool.
(Lena) Yeah...
yeah I will check if I can spare some time.
(Lena's friend) What about next week?
- (Lena) Yeah... I'I check...
- Wednesday maybe?
I'll check if that works out.
Okay
- (Lena's friend) I'll text you a reminder.
- Yeah. Just text me.
Okay...
Bye.
(Lena) Bye.
(hanging up)
(father) Look at your mother. At
that time she was pregnant with you.
- She looks so young.
- (Father) Mhm...
(father) and that one for
sure you can remember that one.
- (father) At the wedding.
- (Lena) Oh yeah.
- (father) You were about eight years old.
- (Lena) Yeah.
- I think I was reciting a poem back then.
- (father) Yeah a poem...
(father) Dear bridal couple...
(both chuckling)
(father) So funny.
(father) Well. Yeah. This was...
This was...
right after your birth one of the
most wonderful days of our lives.
Because your mother and I...
I mean we knew right away
Maybe one week after we first met
we knew that we were going to
spend the rest of our lives together.
- Beautiful.
- (Father) Yeah...
(father) But her life was too short.
(sobbing)
(father bangs on book)
(sobbing)
(sobbing continues)
(Lena opens car door)
(Lena) Papa?
- (Father) Huh?
What are you doing here?
(father) Get in the car.
(slams car door)
(father) Can you remember...
years ago... when we visited
that old man with your mother?
(Lena) Yeah...
At that old house with
the beautiful garden...
(father) where you had to laugh
at those old-fashioned wallpapers.
Yeah...
If anything happens to me...
then you go to that man
I wrote the address down for you...
and...
- Papa stop it.
- Because he...
I don't wanna know about it right now.
(father) Promise me
that you will go to him...
- (Lena) No papa, stop it now!
- Promise me!
NO!
(silence)
At home everything
reminds me of your mother.
Because you never spend any time with us.
You're always somewhere else.
That's why you never notice anything.
(silence)
Just come upstairs.
(opens car door)
(slams car door)
(sighs)
(Lena on phone) Cool.
What's that show about?
(Lena's friend on
phone) It's about a girl...
and she has somehow...
lost her parents in a car crash.
And then... well...
well she... attends high school
(both speaking silently)
(Lena's friend continues on the
phone) and gets to know a boy.
But it turns out that he's a vampire.
Sorry. I just wanted to ask
you something really important.
(father) I took the whole day off tomorrow
and I would love to
spend some time with you.
If you want we could do something.
I don't know. I haven't
seen my friends for a while.
(father) Yeah... as I
said I would have time
And for Matilda I also
took care of a babysitter.
So... we would have the
whole day for us. If you want...
- Yeah, I'll see.
- (Father) Okay.
Sorry, my papa. So what was that about?
(soft nature sounds)
(father) Wow.
(man in suit) Give me your shovel!
(men grunting in distance)
(fightig noises)
(men grunting loudly)
(screams in despair)
(Lena indistinctly) Look at them!
(smashes shovel on man on ground)
(dark athomspheric)
(smashing continues)
(flesh bursting)
(bones crushing)
(strong final hit)
(fire crackling)
(dark athomspheric continues)
(glass clinking)
(glass stopper on table)
(glass clinking)
(puts bottle on table)
Cheers!
(clinks glass)
(dark athomspheric continues)
(exhales)
(puts glass on table)
(whispers) I miss you so much.
(urn rattling)
(dark athomspheric fades)
(inhales)
(exhales)
(dark drone playing)
(no audio but dark drone)
(exhales)
(fast and heavy drone starts)
(rattling on table)
(baby sobbing)
(heavy drone)
(baby starts crying)
Look, papa! Look at her!
You're doing great.
Listen
I'm going to take your mother for a walk.
What?
It's beautiful weather outside.
I want to show her something.
(baby crying continues)
Bye.
(heavy drone reaches climax)
(heavy drone fades to slow,
melancholic piano music)
(soft nature sounds)
(soft, melancholic piano continues)
(no audio just soft and melancholic piano)
(melancholic strings apply)
(melancholic strings reach climax)
(melancholic instrumental music continue)
(no audio, just melancholic
instrumental music)
(music reaches climax)
(soft piano and strings resume)
(music fades)
(slow, electronic instrumental
music starts playing)
(electronic instrumental music continues)
- (Lena) You went to this place again?
- (father) Mhm-mhm.
(Lena) Why?
(electronic music fades)
Because... because I wanted to check if
something bad had happened there or not.
And then I saw...
yeah
It looked like one person hit another but
Well...
he looked he looked
He was just lying there and
somehow he seemed really
Happy.
(father continues) It was
almost as if both of them
Wanted that.
How could you want something like that?
(father continues) Well...
It just appeared as if...
both of them were happy people.
And they've now reached something
What they were aiming for all their life.
Just like now we've finally
made it. That's what it looked like.
Mhm.
I've never experienced that much
bliss... it was just indescribable.
The last time... I experienced
something like that...
was with your mother... and it was...
it just mesmerized me.
(father) That was...
I I want...
I also wanna go there.
(dark drone accentuation)
(slow, electronic instrumental
music starts playing)
Winter
(rattling sounds)
(baby sobs)
(slow, electronic instrumental music fades)
(children's song on music box)
Hello there.
(snow shoveling noise)
(footsteps on snow)
(buzz saw starting)
(shrill noise of buzz saw)
(heavy door opens)
(buzz saw continues in distance)
(buzz saw noise approaching)
(yells) Papa. Papa...
PAPA.
(father stops saw)
Hey... will you come upstairs?
Matilda can't sleep.
No... no.
(buzz saw continues)
(baby crying in distance)
(sighs)
(front door opens)
(door bangs)
(footsteps approaching)
Hello.
Hello.
(baby sobbing in distance)
(spoon clanking on plate)
(baby crying continues)
(baby crying stops)
Well then Merry Christmas.
(father) When was Christmas?
Today?!
(mutters)
(father inhales) Did you think about it?
Are you coming?
Where?
Where we might find your mother again.
What?
Where we are all reunited.
(father slurps)
We didn't even have a Christmas tree.
And no advent calendar either.
We don't have anything left to eat.
That was our last can of noodle soup.
(slurping sounds)
I will take care of it tomorrow.
Trust me.
(fast and heavy drone starts playing)
(metal clanking)
(metal grinding)
(clicking)
(fast and heavy drone continues playing)
(clicking)
(water rushing in distance)
(fire crackling)
(electronic instrumental
music starts playing)
(electronic upbeat synth sound playing)
(no scenic audio)
(electronic upbeat synth sound continues)
(water rushing in distance)
(no scenic audio)
(electronic music slows down)
(fire crackling)
(no scenic audio)
(electronic upbeat synth builds)
(electronic upbeat synth continues)
(synth slows down)
(music fades)
(shallow breathing)
(mobile phone ringing)
(picks up phone)
(Lena's friend) Mama?
Yes, I am at Lena's place.
(surprised) What?!
What about papa?
Yeah, okay.
I'll be right home.
What is it?
(Lena's friend) I don't know.
My papa took a shovel...
and left for the woods.
And he said
he won't be coming back.
(Lena chuckles) What?
Don't know.
He said he's not coming back.
(both chuckle)
I just don't get it.
(dark athmospheric accentuation)
(exhales)
(water streaming)
(dishes clanking)
(front door opens)
(gear clanking)
(father) Check if there's
anything to eat inside.
Papa, where have you been?
(father opens door)
What is that?
- You wanna touch it?
- (Lena) No.
- Give me your hand.
- No! No papa, let me go! Let my...
(slow electronic background
music starts playing)
(paper swishes on paper)
This is the apocalypse
(slow electronic
background music continues)
More and more people
are burying themselves.
The Mycel is spreading fast.
If I don't make it to father's
place soon I'll be doomed.
(reverbal athomspheric accentuation)
(slow electronic
background music continues)
(front door opens)
(front door closes)
(music fades)
(cans clanking)
(father) So? Did you find anything to eat?
Yeah a can of tomato soup.
Then heat it up!
Yeah.
(father opens room door)
(metal clanking)
(matchstick crackling)
(baby breathing slwoly)
- (Lena) Shhhh.
- (Baby) cries out.
(dark drone sound)
(eerie background music)
(throbbing drone sound)
(eerie background music continues)
(throbbing drone sound)
(eerie growing plant life sound)
(baby sobbs)
(baby cries out loud)
(dark and eerie drone sound)
(Lena sobbing)
(eerie strings playing)
(Lena cries out loud)
(soft metalic reverb)
(tense electronic
instrumental music playing)
(water rushing in distance)
(dark electronic
instrumental music playing)
(dark drone accentuation)
(tense instrumental music playing)
(father) Can you remember...
years ago... when we visited
that old man with your mother?
(Lena) Yeah...
At that old house with
the beautiful garden...
where you had to laugh at
those old-fashioned wallpapers.
(Lena) Yeah...
(father) If anything happens to me...
then you go to that man
I wrote the address down for you...
and...
(Lena) Papa stop it.
(Lena) I don't wanna
know about it right now.
(father) Promise me
that you will go to him...
- (Lena decisively) No papa, stop it now!
- (archaic) Promise me!
(reverberating) NO!
(static electricity)
(mentally deficient smacking sounds)
(clock ticking in background)
(man uses mentally deficient language)
I just wanted to ask if you could
help me because my hand...
(Lena) What? No?!
(mentally deficient language crescends)
(whobbling done)
(man sobbs in pain)
(ticking slows and pitches down)
(reverbal accentuation
culminates into dream-like audio)
(Lena speaks mentally)
My papa he buried himself.
(man speaks mentally) Did
he kill anyone before that?
How do you know that?
(man) It constantly reads
and directs our thoughts.
Your dreams your visions
Those were all just forerunners of
what is going to be the new status quo.
You mean telepathy?
It's so much more than just telepathy.
T's emotion-based communication
across time and space.
What?
Very soon we will all communicate
solely through the Mycel.
How can I resist this?
(man exhales)
(reverbal sound effect)
(scenic audio resumes)
(smacking sounds)
(smacking) You have to...
your mind...
T-R-I-C-K
What?
Trick...
your...
mind
(mentally) But even that... is just...
a solution for now.
Sooner or later...
we will all face the same fate.
Assimilation.
(rhymes mentally)
Little Hans left his home
in the big world all alone
walking stick and hat suit him well
without a worry, you can tell
(pulsating drone)
(mentally) Now listen carefully!
You are at a stage right now
where you are starting
to notice interference
(baby crying)
Not only from your environment,
but especially with your own "self".
You have to find out where
your place is in this new world.
Even if that means...
making a necessary sacrifice.
(mentally) Little Hans left his home
in the big world all alone
walking stick and hat suit him well
without a worry, you can tell
(eerie growing plantflife sound)
(pulsating heartbeat)
(Lena mentally) You want
us to be a family again?
Really, Matilda has never been
part of your perception of a family.
So let me tell you something:
First, I will never come back to you.
Secondly, I'll choose my own path.
And thirdly...
from now on for the first time in your life
you will take responsibility for Matilda.
(baby crying out loud)
- (Lena) Shhhh.
(deep and dark drone)
(slow, melancholic piano music playing)
(water rushing in distance)
(birds chirping in distance)
(slow, melancholic piano music continues)
(soft wind blowing)
(slow, melancholic piano music crescends)
(Lena) I didn't want that.
(dark drone accentuation)
(Lena reading) There
are corpses everywhere.
The madmen turn into trees,
bushes and meadows.
I feel the Earth vibrating under my feet.
She wants me to crawl into her.
This is the apocalypse.
(Lena reading) Slowly,
I'm becoming paranoid.
I have nightmares almost every day.
Tonight it got me, too.
(Lena crying)
(Lena reading) The
fucking fungus is on my foot.
I've never had such
intense dreams in my life.
(shrill electronic noise crescends)
(Lena crying angrily)
(tense electronic background music)
(Lena breathing heavily)
(no scenic audio)
(Lena cries in despair)
(eerie electronic background music)
(music fades)
(Lena mentally) It's not far now.
(Lena reading) I'm just before
St. Koloman at the Seewald lake.
(Lena reading and Lena mentally)
We'll be at father's in two to three days.
(Lena reading and Lena
mentally) No one knows what to do.
Myself included.
The Mycel wants to take me.
(motivational electronic background music)
(Lena opens front door)
(motivational electronic
background music continues)
(Lena mentally) The dreams
are getting stronger and stronger.
They're already occurring during the day.
I can really feel the people inside me now.
(electronic reverb sound)
(mother breathing heavily)
Mama?
Mama? Should I call papa?
(mother) Yeah.
(baby crying)
(Lena mentally) I am afraid
that I am slowly going crazy.
Past, present and future...
everything is mixed up inside me.
(winterly winds blowing)
(birds chirping in distance)
(coughing)
(Lena mentally) My body is
fighting back with every fiber.
Something is growing and thriving.
(electronic downtempo music playing)
(avalanche rumbling in distance)
(Lena mentally) Is this all real?
Am I still on the path?
(Lena mentally and Lena
reading) Where am I?
(electronic downtempo music continues)
I've been here before.
I've been here before.
(Lena laughing in despair)
(laughs madly)
(reverberating sound)
Little Hans left his home
n the big world all alone
Walking stick and hat suit him well
without a worry, you can tell
(chuckles softly)
(exhales peacefully)
(fire crackling)
(Lena sobbs)
(sobbing) I can't do it.
How am I supposed to do this?
I'm all alone!
(hopeful instrumental music starts playing)
(divine accentuation)
(inaudible)
(hopeful instrumental music continues)
(sobbing)
(Lena reading) I thought I'd
start writing it all down now.
It calms me somehow and it helps...
it helps me to organize my thoughts.
(Lena mentally) Maybe this
will come in handy someday.
My papa is not dead.
He's with me...
in the woods.
And I'm also still here.
(electronic deonwtempo music playing)
(water rushing in distance)
(Lena mentally) Today I feel much better.
The voices are going away.
Everything is much clearer now.
But I must not become naive.
I have a feeling...
the fungus is spreading.
(exhales)
(electronic deonwtempo music continues)
(indistinct)
(indistinct)
(in distance) Silva
(water streaming in distance)
(downtempo music slowly fades)
(fire crackles)
(Lena knocking) Hello? Is anybody there?
(mill wheel pounds)
(mill wheel pounding continues)
(distorted male voice) The
dog's already growling at me.
He knows exactly that something
strange is taking possession of me.
(fast forwards tape)
(chemist) Day 178.
The entire series of
experiments have failed so far.
All the chemical
additives... electricity...
temperature fluctuations...
a combination of all these...
nothing has worked out.
The Mycel doesn't react anymore.
Though...
no reaction isn't exactly the case.
(rustling on tape)
I have the feeling...
that the harder you
fight it the stronger it gets.
(chemist coughs on tape)
(tense background music)
(on tape) This would also explain...
why it's got me that badly.
(moans)
(on tape) But I've continued the
treatment as an experiment on myself.
If you consider all that as its nature...
(shouts)
(on tape) this could be a perfect organism.
(inaudible)
(pitched down) A super organism.
(inhales sharply)
(trippy and tense electronic
music starts playing)
(inaudible)
(shouts) Get out!
Get out!
Infected! Infected!
(inhales again)
(coughs heavily)
(spits)
(sobbing in pain)
(coughs)
(sobbing in strong pain)
(cries out in pain)
(cries out in pain)
(audio fades)
(rain stick sound)
(Lena sobbs indistinctly)
(audio pitches down)
(groans)
(trippy reverb)
(dog licking indistinctly)
(brazen accentuation)
(heavy and trippy electronic
music starts playing)
(heavy reverb)
(trippy synth music starts playing)
(inaudible)
(trippy synth music continues playing)
(no scenic audio, just music)
(trippy music slows down)
(breathes heavily)
(distorted voice speaking backwards)
(trippy music builds again)
(door squeaks)
(trippy music slows down)
(backward voice continues speaking)
(trippy music builds)
(backward voice down-pitched)
(trippy music fades)
(indaudible)
(indaudible)
(heavy drone pounding)
(down-pitched, reverberant
didgeridoo playing)
(Lena and man
simultaneously) It is not far now.
I'm just before St. Koloman
at the Seewald lake.
We'll be at father's in two to three days.
So far, so good.
But I must not become naive now.
The fungus is spreading.
What if it eats away at my thoughts...
(Lena by herself) eats
away at my thoughts...
(man by himself) eats
away at my thoughts...
(Lena and man) The dreams
are getting stronger and stronger.
They're already occurring during the day.
I can really feel the people inside me now.
(man) Is this all real?
(Lena) Am I still on the path?
(Lena and man) Nothing makes sense anymore.
Past, present and future...
everything's all mixed up inside me...
all mixed up.
(heavy drone pounding)
Spring
(dog sniffing)
(quietly) Where are we?
(floor creaks)
(reverberant accentuation)
(inhales)
(stairs creaking)
(mysterious background music)
(man mentally) It's
emotion-based communication...
across time... and space.
(Lena mentally) What?
(old and young man) Very soon we will
all communicate solely through the Mycel.
(slow, electronic piano
music starts playing)
So, so.
You're feeling better now?
(growing plant life sound)
I had an awful dream...
that we're all alone in this world.
No we're not alone in this world.
(growing plant life sound)
(growing plant life sound continues)
I have to go.
I can't stay any longer.
I won't stop you, dear Lena.
(growing sound)
(music slowly fades)
(opens book)
(mentally) I think... this is yours.
(growing sound)
(reverberant) My boy.
Did he have to really suffer?
(birds chirping in distance)
Thank you for everything.
(growing sound)
(melancholic guitar music starts playing)
(Lena) Silva, come here!
Come here!
(growing sound)
(guitar music continues)
(Lena happily) Silva, come here!
(guitar music continues)
(heavy rain)
(Lena yells indistinctly)
(lock clicks)
(guitar music fades)
(door locks in)
(birds chirping in distance)
(menacing athmospheric)
(drone accentuation)
(baby) cries out loud - (Lena) Shhhh.
(down-pitched drone)
(floor door locks in reverberantly)
(reverberant footsteps)
(front door opens)
(Lena mentally) Little
Hans left his home
in the big world all alone
Walking stick and hat suit him well
without a worry, you can tell
Little Hans left his home
n the big world all alone
Walking stick and hat suit him well
without a worry, you can tell
(clock ticking builds)
(clock stops with reverberant accentuation)
(audio fades)
(growing plant life sound building)
(growing plant life sound climax)
(silence)
(23 y.o. Lena mentally) Matilda...
(10 y. O. Matilda) Lena...
(23 y.o. Lena mentally) Can you forgive me?
(heavy thunder rumbles)
(rain starts)
(Lena and Matilda simultaeously)
We are finally united again.
(rain and wind getting stronger)
(reverbal accentuation)
(mysterious instrumental music plays)
(mentally) We are finally united again.
No film by Dirty Toe Productions
(mysterious instrumental music continues)
(mysterious instrumental music
culminates into peaceful climax)
(music fades)
under undeserving conditions and
therefore does not receive the
clearance to be called a "film".
Undeserving because the production
of a film usually not only devours
vast amounts of money, but also
leaves an enormous ecological footprint.
So now follows an acoustically
underscored sequence
of images that prides
itself on being "no-budget".
(tense instrumental music)
(water rushing in distance)
(tense musical accentuation)
(kayak grinding)
(tense musical accentuation)
(gear clanks on stone)
(tense instrumental music continues)
(tense musical accentuation)
(water rushing)
(fire crackling)
(swishing)
(man screams in pain)
(screaming continues)
(screaming in strong pain)
(quiet footseps approaching)
(screaming in distance)
(screaming continues)
(footseps on peeble)
(tense music continues without audio)
(rifle shot fires)
(tense music continues without audio)
(trunk opens)
(metal clanks)
(digging into soil)
(digging continues)
(digging continues)
(grass swishing)
(tense background music and no audio)
(water rushing in distance)
(tense musical accentuation)
(water rushing in distance continues)
(drone sound)
(old clock ticking)
(girl in room) My papa he buried himself.
(man in room) Did he
kill anyone before that?
(old clock ticking continues)
(man in room) Do you know
what the real strange thing
with all those shovelers is?
At first they all committed a murder.
And I'm not talking about
some calculated murder.
And no impulsive murder.
I'm talking about a
murder of purest conviction.
(slow piano background music)
(man in suit) Give me your shovel!
(both men groaning)
(man in room continues) A killing that
maybe only insects are able to commit.
Raw and without any empathy.
(metal smashing on flesh)
(man in room continues) This
is what this fungus does with us.
And this is what makes it
so incredibly dangerous.
(spherical background music)
It starts with a simple and
foremost very precise vision.
A purpose.
Destiny.
You yourself feel perfectly well with it.
But in reality... you're
already being affected.
It's in the water.
In the air we breathe.
In our food.
Very soon the whole
power grid will go down.
(electric crackling)
(matchstick crackles)
(man in room continues) People
are going crazy, getting paranoid.
(grinding on metal)
You cannot fight it.
(baby crying)
You change.
We all change.
(fly buzzing)
What does that mean?
(man in room continues)
We're all getting absorbed
until we're spun into one whole web
of cells and fibers.
(spherical breathing)
(man in room continues) One month from now
the world as we know it
won't exist anymore.
No!
Think about it.
It's always been part of our nature.
First you turn into a murderer.
Later you become part of the
largest living entity that's ever existed.
(clock striking)
It's our inevitable fate.
(spherical piano background music)
(alarm ringing)
(spherical piano
background music continues)
Fall
(pregnant woman breathing heavily)
Mama.
Mama, should I call papa?
Yeah!
(heavy breathing continues)
(doorbell buzzing)
(girl) There she is.
(heavy breathing continues)
- Hi. Hello there.
- Hello.
Yay! The baby's coming.
- Hello, Sonja!
- Hi!
Good to see you.
- How are you?
- I'm fine.
- Fine? Alright.
- Yeah.
- Hello Lena.
- (Lena) Hello.
- Is your papa not here?
- (Lena) No. I will call him again.
(midwife) Yeah. Give him another call.
Alright, Sonja.
Let's get you ready... Just a sec.
- Otherwise everything is going well.
- You're feeling good?
That's so good to hear.
Let's get you ready...
-Yeah.
- For this baby.
It's you're second child isn't
it? Everything's gonna be fine.
(Lena) Papa, where are you?
(midwife) Here we go.
(Lena) Traffic jam?
(midwife) Let's get you in
this nice and cozy bathtub.
(Lena) What traffic jam?
(water rushing)
(heavy breathing continues)
(Lena) Papa, the baby is coming now.
(midwife) Hey.
(Lena) Hurry!
(midwife) Will you take off those pants?
(water rushing continues)
(midwife) Very well.
The contractions are
coming every four minutes.
Okay let's check if your
cervix is already dilated.
Alrighty.
Where's Lena?
- Here I am.
- Lena, hello.
Would you be so kind to get your mama a cup
of hot tea? You may help us a little bit.
Or would you rather prefer something cold?
- (Sonja) Some water please.
- Some water.
- Listen, Lena!
- Yeah?
She would like some water instead. Bring
her a nice glass of cold water please.
Yeah.
Alright...
(glass clangs)
(water rushes)
(midwife) Temperature is fine?
- A little bit cooler.
- (midwife) Okay. Bit cooler.
A bit cooler. Perfect.
Very well.
Alright.
(water streaming)
(midwife and Sonja talking indistinctly)
(midwife) Perfect. Thank you.
(Lena) Welcome.
(midwife) Thank you.
(midwife) Here you go.
So exciting.
It's finally happening.
(Sonja sighing) Yeah.
Let me just check if
the heart rate is fine.
Here we go.
(streaming water continues)
- Ah yeah.
- (Sonja) Can you hear it?
Yeah. There it is.
Everything fine?
(midwife) Everything
fine. Everything alright.
- Can you hear it?
- (midwife) Yes, I hear it.
(midwife) As practiced. When
a contraction comes, exhale.
Inhale through your mouth
and exhale through the nose.
(water stops)
Perfect.
(Sonja breathing heavily)
- Perfect.
- (Sonja) Now it's starting.
Now it's starting.
(midwife) Exhale through your mouth
and inhale through the nose.
Repeat. Exhale through your
mouth. Your'e doing great. Perfect.
Then exhale.
In through the nose. Out through the mouth.
Perfect.
Later you will have a
re... an interval phase.
Okay?
Perfect.
Everything's alright.
Perfect.
(Sonja breathing heavily)
Perfect.
Perfect.
(heavy be a thing continues)
In through the nose and
again out through the mouth.
Phew. Somehow I'm
feeling a little bit dizzy.
(midwife) Your'e feeling dizzy?
(Sonja) yeah...
- (midwife) And nausea?
- (Sonja)... somehow weird.
(midwife) Yeah? Are you feeling sick now?
Aha. So you're not feeling fine?
Do we need to get out?
Wait.
(midwife) Should we
get you out of the tub?
Wait a second.
(starts hyperventilating)
(hyperventilating in distance)
(midwife in bathroom) Okay I
think we need to get you out, Sonja.
Come on! You can hold on to me.
Sonja. Take my arm! Come on!
Lena?
(Lena) Yeah?
(midwife) Lena, please.
Can you help us?
We need to get your mama out of the tub.
She needs to get into bed.
(midwife) Come on! Lay down.
It's your blood pressure.
Rest!
Sonja?!
I'm feeling so dizzy.
(Lena) Mama...
(midwife) We need to lay you down!
(midwife) La... Lena!
- (Lena) Yeah.
Lena, please call the ambulance. 144.
- (Lena) Yeah.
- (Midwife) Okay?
Tell them your address. 144.
Sonja?
(hyperventilating continues)
- (midwife) Sonja, you need to push!
- (Sonja) Something is wrong.
(dark drone sound)
(audio fading)
(midwife) Stay with me! Stay with me!
- (midwife) Sonja. Sonja.
- (Lena) Mama...
Sonja - Mama...
(midwife) It will be okay.
Lena...
Lena... can you please go outside
and watch for the ambulance?
So they will immediately
find their way up here.
(hyperventilating continues)
Perfect. Perfect...
Sonja. Sonja.
You need to push!
The baby is crowning. I can
see it's little head already.
There is the head.
Sonja, Sonja...
Yes. Great job!
Great job...
We're almost there.
yes, yes.
You're doing great.
Stay with me! Stay with me!
Stay with me, Sonja.
- (Lena) Nobody's here yet.
- (midwife) Nobody here? Okay.
- (midwife) Stay downstairs anyways!
- (Lena) Mama...
(midwife) Stay downstairs, so they
know where where they have to go.
Perfect.
Sonja?!
Sonja... Fuck!
(breathing fades)
Sonja?!
(breathing stopped)
- (midwife) FUCK.
- (Lena) What happened?
(midwife) Fuck. She has no pulse.
(tense background music playing)
Fuck.
(midwife stress fully sighing)
(midwife intensely breathing)
(Lena sobbing) Mama...
(Lena crying) Mama...
Mama!!!
What's wrong with her?
Mama!!!
(intense breathing continues)
(Lena sobbing in despair)
(music fading)
Sonja. Please!
Sonja...
(running footsteps)
How are you? How...
how's the baby?
How's your mother?
(father) Where is your mother?
Where is your mother, Lena?
Check the bathroom.
(dark background music)
Why are you lying on the floor?
Sonja?!
Why is she lying on the floor?
(spoken words reverbing)
(no audio)
(reverb reaches climax)
(soft synth background music)
(father sobbing in pain)
(father crying out loud)
(man speaking indistinctly
on hand's free device)
(synth music continues)
(taxi driver speaking Russian)
(men indistinctly arguing in Russian)
(arguing continues)
(car door opens)
(urn rattles)
(footesteps)
Papa?
(Lena) What about Matilda?
Your mother would like to go out to deck.
(synth music fades)
(baby crying)
(slamming)
(car door opens)
(baby crying continues)
(baby crying fades)
Come in now!
(Lena) Please come in now.
Matilda is inside as well.
Matilda huh?!
(father) Matilda took your mother from us.
(slapping)
(door bangs)
(baby sobbing)
(people laughing in distance)
(distorted baby-crying)
(dark athomspheric)
(normal baby-crying)
(distorted baby-crying continues)
(no audio)
(distorted baby-crying continues)
(normal baby-crying)
(Lena) Where did you go shopping?
(Lena's friend) At Ikea. This
is where I bought all that stuff.
You have to come along
sometime. It's really cool.
(Lena) Yeah...
yeah I will check if I can spare some time.
(Lena's friend) What about next week?
- (Lena) Yeah... I'I check...
- Wednesday maybe?
I'll check if that works out.
Okay
- (Lena's friend) I'll text you a reminder.
- Yeah. Just text me.
Okay...
Bye.
(Lena) Bye.
(hanging up)
(father) Look at your mother. At
that time she was pregnant with you.
- She looks so young.
- (Father) Mhm...
(father) and that one for
sure you can remember that one.
- (father) At the wedding.
- (Lena) Oh yeah.
- (father) You were about eight years old.
- (Lena) Yeah.
- I think I was reciting a poem back then.
- (father) Yeah a poem...
(father) Dear bridal couple...
(both chuckling)
(father) So funny.
(father) Well. Yeah. This was...
This was...
right after your birth one of the
most wonderful days of our lives.
Because your mother and I...
I mean we knew right away
Maybe one week after we first met
we knew that we were going to
spend the rest of our lives together.
- Beautiful.
- (Father) Yeah...
(father) But her life was too short.
(sobbing)
(father bangs on book)
(sobbing)
(sobbing continues)
(Lena opens car door)
(Lena) Papa?
- (Father) Huh?
What are you doing here?
(father) Get in the car.
(slams car door)
(father) Can you remember...
years ago... when we visited
that old man with your mother?
(Lena) Yeah...
At that old house with
the beautiful garden...
(father) where you had to laugh
at those old-fashioned wallpapers.
Yeah...
If anything happens to me...
then you go to that man
I wrote the address down for you...
and...
- Papa stop it.
- Because he...
I don't wanna know about it right now.
(father) Promise me
that you will go to him...
- (Lena) No papa, stop it now!
- Promise me!
NO!
(silence)
At home everything
reminds me of your mother.
Because you never spend any time with us.
You're always somewhere else.
That's why you never notice anything.
(silence)
Just come upstairs.
(opens car door)
(slams car door)
(sighs)
(Lena on phone) Cool.
What's that show about?
(Lena's friend on
phone) It's about a girl...
and she has somehow...
lost her parents in a car crash.
And then... well...
well she... attends high school
(both speaking silently)
(Lena's friend continues on the
phone) and gets to know a boy.
But it turns out that he's a vampire.
Sorry. I just wanted to ask
you something really important.
(father) I took the whole day off tomorrow
and I would love to
spend some time with you.
If you want we could do something.
I don't know. I haven't
seen my friends for a while.
(father) Yeah... as I
said I would have time
And for Matilda I also
took care of a babysitter.
So... we would have the
whole day for us. If you want...
- Yeah, I'll see.
- (Father) Okay.
Sorry, my papa. So what was that about?
(soft nature sounds)
(father) Wow.
(man in suit) Give me your shovel!
(men grunting in distance)
(fightig noises)
(men grunting loudly)
(screams in despair)
(Lena indistinctly) Look at them!
(smashes shovel on man on ground)
(dark athomspheric)
(smashing continues)
(flesh bursting)
(bones crushing)
(strong final hit)
(fire crackling)
(dark athomspheric continues)
(glass clinking)
(glass stopper on table)
(glass clinking)
(puts bottle on table)
Cheers!
(clinks glass)
(dark athomspheric continues)
(exhales)
(puts glass on table)
(whispers) I miss you so much.
(urn rattling)
(dark athomspheric fades)
(inhales)
(exhales)
(dark drone playing)
(no audio but dark drone)
(exhales)
(fast and heavy drone starts)
(rattling on table)
(baby sobbing)
(heavy drone)
(baby starts crying)
Look, papa! Look at her!
You're doing great.
Listen
I'm going to take your mother for a walk.
What?
It's beautiful weather outside.
I want to show her something.
(baby crying continues)
Bye.
(heavy drone reaches climax)
(heavy drone fades to slow,
melancholic piano music)
(soft nature sounds)
(soft, melancholic piano continues)
(no audio just soft and melancholic piano)
(melancholic strings apply)
(melancholic strings reach climax)
(melancholic instrumental music continue)
(no audio, just melancholic
instrumental music)
(music reaches climax)
(soft piano and strings resume)
(music fades)
(slow, electronic instrumental
music starts playing)
(electronic instrumental music continues)
- (Lena) You went to this place again?
- (father) Mhm-mhm.
(Lena) Why?
(electronic music fades)
Because... because I wanted to check if
something bad had happened there or not.
And then I saw...
yeah
It looked like one person hit another but
Well...
he looked he looked
He was just lying there and
somehow he seemed really
Happy.
(father continues) It was
almost as if both of them
Wanted that.
How could you want something like that?
(father continues) Well...
It just appeared as if...
both of them were happy people.
And they've now reached something
What they were aiming for all their life.
Just like now we've finally
made it. That's what it looked like.
Mhm.
I've never experienced that much
bliss... it was just indescribable.
The last time... I experienced
something like that...
was with your mother... and it was...
it just mesmerized me.
(father) That was...
I I want...
I also wanna go there.
(dark drone accentuation)
(slow, electronic instrumental
music starts playing)
Winter
(rattling sounds)
(baby sobs)
(slow, electronic instrumental music fades)
(children's song on music box)
Hello there.
(snow shoveling noise)
(footsteps on snow)
(buzz saw starting)
(shrill noise of buzz saw)
(heavy door opens)
(buzz saw continues in distance)
(buzz saw noise approaching)
(yells) Papa. Papa...
PAPA.
(father stops saw)
Hey... will you come upstairs?
Matilda can't sleep.
No... no.
(buzz saw continues)
(baby crying in distance)
(sighs)
(front door opens)
(door bangs)
(footsteps approaching)
Hello.
Hello.
(baby sobbing in distance)
(spoon clanking on plate)
(baby crying continues)
(baby crying stops)
Well then Merry Christmas.
(father) When was Christmas?
Today?!
(mutters)
(father inhales) Did you think about it?
Are you coming?
Where?
Where we might find your mother again.
What?
Where we are all reunited.
(father slurps)
We didn't even have a Christmas tree.
And no advent calendar either.
We don't have anything left to eat.
That was our last can of noodle soup.
(slurping sounds)
I will take care of it tomorrow.
Trust me.
(fast and heavy drone starts playing)
(metal clanking)
(metal grinding)
(clicking)
(fast and heavy drone continues playing)
(clicking)
(water rushing in distance)
(fire crackling)
(electronic instrumental
music starts playing)
(electronic upbeat synth sound playing)
(no scenic audio)
(electronic upbeat synth sound continues)
(water rushing in distance)
(no scenic audio)
(electronic music slows down)
(fire crackling)
(no scenic audio)
(electronic upbeat synth builds)
(electronic upbeat synth continues)
(synth slows down)
(music fades)
(shallow breathing)
(mobile phone ringing)
(picks up phone)
(Lena's friend) Mama?
Yes, I am at Lena's place.
(surprised) What?!
What about papa?
Yeah, okay.
I'll be right home.
What is it?
(Lena's friend) I don't know.
My papa took a shovel...
and left for the woods.
And he said
he won't be coming back.
(Lena chuckles) What?
Don't know.
He said he's not coming back.
(both chuckle)
I just don't get it.
(dark athmospheric accentuation)
(exhales)
(water streaming)
(dishes clanking)
(front door opens)
(gear clanking)
(father) Check if there's
anything to eat inside.
Papa, where have you been?
(father opens door)
What is that?
- You wanna touch it?
- (Lena) No.
- Give me your hand.
- No! No papa, let me go! Let my...
(slow electronic background
music starts playing)
(paper swishes on paper)
This is the apocalypse
(slow electronic
background music continues)
More and more people
are burying themselves.
The Mycel is spreading fast.
If I don't make it to father's
place soon I'll be doomed.
(reverbal athomspheric accentuation)
(slow electronic
background music continues)
(front door opens)
(front door closes)
(music fades)
(cans clanking)
(father) So? Did you find anything to eat?
Yeah a can of tomato soup.
Then heat it up!
Yeah.
(father opens room door)
(metal clanking)
(matchstick crackling)
(baby breathing slwoly)
- (Lena) Shhhh.
- (Baby) cries out.
(dark drone sound)
(eerie background music)
(throbbing drone sound)
(eerie background music continues)
(throbbing drone sound)
(eerie growing plant life sound)
(baby sobbs)
(baby cries out loud)
(dark and eerie drone sound)
(Lena sobbing)
(eerie strings playing)
(Lena cries out loud)
(soft metalic reverb)
(tense electronic
instrumental music playing)
(water rushing in distance)
(dark electronic
instrumental music playing)
(dark drone accentuation)
(tense instrumental music playing)
(father) Can you remember...
years ago... when we visited
that old man with your mother?
(Lena) Yeah...
At that old house with
the beautiful garden...
where you had to laugh at
those old-fashioned wallpapers.
(Lena) Yeah...
(father) If anything happens to me...
then you go to that man
I wrote the address down for you...
and...
(Lena) Papa stop it.
(Lena) I don't wanna
know about it right now.
(father) Promise me
that you will go to him...
- (Lena decisively) No papa, stop it now!
- (archaic) Promise me!
(reverberating) NO!
(static electricity)
(mentally deficient smacking sounds)
(clock ticking in background)
(man uses mentally deficient language)
I just wanted to ask if you could
help me because my hand...
(Lena) What? No?!
(mentally deficient language crescends)
(whobbling done)
(man sobbs in pain)
(ticking slows and pitches down)
(reverbal accentuation
culminates into dream-like audio)
(Lena speaks mentally)
My papa he buried himself.
(man speaks mentally) Did
he kill anyone before that?
How do you know that?
(man) It constantly reads
and directs our thoughts.
Your dreams your visions
Those were all just forerunners of
what is going to be the new status quo.
You mean telepathy?
It's so much more than just telepathy.
T's emotion-based communication
across time and space.
What?
Very soon we will all communicate
solely through the Mycel.
How can I resist this?
(man exhales)
(reverbal sound effect)
(scenic audio resumes)
(smacking sounds)
(smacking) You have to...
your mind...
T-R-I-C-K
What?
Trick...
your...
mind
(mentally) But even that... is just...
a solution for now.
Sooner or later...
we will all face the same fate.
Assimilation.
(rhymes mentally)
Little Hans left his home
in the big world all alone
walking stick and hat suit him well
without a worry, you can tell
(pulsating drone)
(mentally) Now listen carefully!
You are at a stage right now
where you are starting
to notice interference
(baby crying)
Not only from your environment,
but especially with your own "self".
You have to find out where
your place is in this new world.
Even if that means...
making a necessary sacrifice.
(mentally) Little Hans left his home
in the big world all alone
walking stick and hat suit him well
without a worry, you can tell
(eerie growing plantflife sound)
(pulsating heartbeat)
(Lena mentally) You want
us to be a family again?
Really, Matilda has never been
part of your perception of a family.
So let me tell you something:
First, I will never come back to you.
Secondly, I'll choose my own path.
And thirdly...
from now on for the first time in your life
you will take responsibility for Matilda.
(baby crying out loud)
- (Lena) Shhhh.
(deep and dark drone)
(slow, melancholic piano music playing)
(water rushing in distance)
(birds chirping in distance)
(slow, melancholic piano music continues)
(soft wind blowing)
(slow, melancholic piano music crescends)
(Lena) I didn't want that.
(dark drone accentuation)
(Lena reading) There
are corpses everywhere.
The madmen turn into trees,
bushes and meadows.
I feel the Earth vibrating under my feet.
She wants me to crawl into her.
This is the apocalypse.
(Lena reading) Slowly,
I'm becoming paranoid.
I have nightmares almost every day.
Tonight it got me, too.
(Lena crying)
(Lena reading) The
fucking fungus is on my foot.
I've never had such
intense dreams in my life.
(shrill electronic noise crescends)
(Lena crying angrily)
(tense electronic background music)
(Lena breathing heavily)
(no scenic audio)
(Lena cries in despair)
(eerie electronic background music)
(music fades)
(Lena mentally) It's not far now.
(Lena reading) I'm just before
St. Koloman at the Seewald lake.
(Lena reading and Lena mentally)
We'll be at father's in two to three days.
(Lena reading and Lena
mentally) No one knows what to do.
Myself included.
The Mycel wants to take me.
(motivational electronic background music)
(Lena opens front door)
(motivational electronic
background music continues)
(Lena mentally) The dreams
are getting stronger and stronger.
They're already occurring during the day.
I can really feel the people inside me now.
(electronic reverb sound)
(mother breathing heavily)
Mama?
Mama? Should I call papa?
(mother) Yeah.
(baby crying)
(Lena mentally) I am afraid
that I am slowly going crazy.
Past, present and future...
everything is mixed up inside me.
(winterly winds blowing)
(birds chirping in distance)
(coughing)
(Lena mentally) My body is
fighting back with every fiber.
Something is growing and thriving.
(electronic downtempo music playing)
(avalanche rumbling in distance)
(Lena mentally) Is this all real?
Am I still on the path?
(Lena mentally and Lena
reading) Where am I?
(electronic downtempo music continues)
I've been here before.
I've been here before.
(Lena laughing in despair)
(laughs madly)
(reverberating sound)
Little Hans left his home
n the big world all alone
Walking stick and hat suit him well
without a worry, you can tell
(chuckles softly)
(exhales peacefully)
(fire crackling)
(Lena sobbs)
(sobbing) I can't do it.
How am I supposed to do this?
I'm all alone!
(hopeful instrumental music starts playing)
(divine accentuation)
(inaudible)
(hopeful instrumental music continues)
(sobbing)
(Lena reading) I thought I'd
start writing it all down now.
It calms me somehow and it helps...
it helps me to organize my thoughts.
(Lena mentally) Maybe this
will come in handy someday.
My papa is not dead.
He's with me...
in the woods.
And I'm also still here.
(electronic deonwtempo music playing)
(water rushing in distance)
(Lena mentally) Today I feel much better.
The voices are going away.
Everything is much clearer now.
But I must not become naive.
I have a feeling...
the fungus is spreading.
(exhales)
(electronic deonwtempo music continues)
(indistinct)
(indistinct)
(in distance) Silva
(water streaming in distance)
(downtempo music slowly fades)
(fire crackles)
(Lena knocking) Hello? Is anybody there?
(mill wheel pounds)
(mill wheel pounding continues)
(distorted male voice) The
dog's already growling at me.
He knows exactly that something
strange is taking possession of me.
(fast forwards tape)
(chemist) Day 178.
The entire series of
experiments have failed so far.
All the chemical
additives... electricity...
temperature fluctuations...
a combination of all these...
nothing has worked out.
The Mycel doesn't react anymore.
Though...
no reaction isn't exactly the case.
(rustling on tape)
I have the feeling...
that the harder you
fight it the stronger it gets.
(chemist coughs on tape)
(tense background music)
(on tape) This would also explain...
why it's got me that badly.
(moans)
(on tape) But I've continued the
treatment as an experiment on myself.
If you consider all that as its nature...
(shouts)
(on tape) this could be a perfect organism.
(inaudible)
(pitched down) A super organism.
(inhales sharply)
(trippy and tense electronic
music starts playing)
(inaudible)
(shouts) Get out!
Get out!
Infected! Infected!
(inhales again)
(coughs heavily)
(spits)
(sobbing in pain)
(coughs)
(sobbing in strong pain)
(cries out in pain)
(cries out in pain)
(audio fades)
(rain stick sound)
(Lena sobbs indistinctly)
(audio pitches down)
(groans)
(trippy reverb)
(dog licking indistinctly)
(brazen accentuation)
(heavy and trippy electronic
music starts playing)
(heavy reverb)
(trippy synth music starts playing)
(inaudible)
(trippy synth music continues playing)
(no scenic audio, just music)
(trippy music slows down)
(breathes heavily)
(distorted voice speaking backwards)
(trippy music builds again)
(door squeaks)
(trippy music slows down)
(backward voice continues speaking)
(trippy music builds)
(backward voice down-pitched)
(trippy music fades)
(indaudible)
(indaudible)
(heavy drone pounding)
(down-pitched, reverberant
didgeridoo playing)
(Lena and man
simultaneously) It is not far now.
I'm just before St. Koloman
at the Seewald lake.
We'll be at father's in two to three days.
So far, so good.
But I must not become naive now.
The fungus is spreading.
What if it eats away at my thoughts...
(Lena by herself) eats
away at my thoughts...
(man by himself) eats
away at my thoughts...
(Lena and man) The dreams
are getting stronger and stronger.
They're already occurring during the day.
I can really feel the people inside me now.
(man) Is this all real?
(Lena) Am I still on the path?
(Lena and man) Nothing makes sense anymore.
Past, present and future...
everything's all mixed up inside me...
all mixed up.
(heavy drone pounding)
Spring
(dog sniffing)
(quietly) Where are we?
(floor creaks)
(reverberant accentuation)
(inhales)
(stairs creaking)
(mysterious background music)
(man mentally) It's
emotion-based communication...
across time... and space.
(Lena mentally) What?
(old and young man) Very soon we will
all communicate solely through the Mycel.
(slow, electronic piano
music starts playing)
So, so.
You're feeling better now?
(growing plant life sound)
I had an awful dream...
that we're all alone in this world.
No we're not alone in this world.
(growing plant life sound)
(growing plant life sound continues)
I have to go.
I can't stay any longer.
I won't stop you, dear Lena.
(growing sound)
(music slowly fades)
(opens book)
(mentally) I think... this is yours.
(growing sound)
(reverberant) My boy.
Did he have to really suffer?
(birds chirping in distance)
Thank you for everything.
(growing sound)
(melancholic guitar music starts playing)
(Lena) Silva, come here!
Come here!
(growing sound)
(guitar music continues)
(Lena happily) Silva, come here!
(guitar music continues)
(heavy rain)
(Lena yells indistinctly)
(lock clicks)
(guitar music fades)
(door locks in)
(birds chirping in distance)
(menacing athmospheric)
(drone accentuation)
(baby) cries out loud - (Lena) Shhhh.
(down-pitched drone)
(floor door locks in reverberantly)
(reverberant footsteps)
(front door opens)
(Lena mentally) Little
Hans left his home
in the big world all alone
Walking stick and hat suit him well
without a worry, you can tell
Little Hans left his home
n the big world all alone
Walking stick and hat suit him well
without a worry, you can tell
(clock ticking builds)
(clock stops with reverberant accentuation)
(audio fades)
(growing plant life sound building)
(growing plant life sound climax)
(silence)
(23 y.o. Lena mentally) Matilda...
(10 y. O. Matilda) Lena...
(23 y.o. Lena mentally) Can you forgive me?
(heavy thunder rumbles)
(rain starts)
(Lena and Matilda simultaeously)
We are finally united again.
(rain and wind getting stronger)
(reverbal accentuation)
(mysterious instrumental music plays)
(mentally) We are finally united again.
No film by Dirty Toe Productions
(mysterious instrumental music continues)
(mysterious instrumental music
culminates into peaceful climax)
(music fades)