Snowblind

synopsis

A dark fantasy inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, interwoven with Lovecraftian allusions, follows a lonely traveler who enters a forgotten realm where reality shatters. Visions of high mountain cliffs, glaciers, and monsters, created in collaboration with artificial intelligence, are accompanied by a voice-over narrating the events in an incomprehensible language. The black-and-white, high-contrast imagery builds an atmosphere of inexplicable horror that accompanies, in Lovecraft's words, “the defeat of those fixed laws of nature which are our only protection against the assaults of chaos and the demons of the unexplored universe.”

“There is knowledge that defies words. And a tongue best left uncomprehended.”

biography

Tomáš Rampula (born 1977) is an artist exploring the intersection of art, technology, and storytelling. After studying architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague, he devoted himself to connecting architecture, sound, and space through video and installation at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, where he studied Screen-Based Arts. He continued his studies at the Center for Audiovisual Studies at FAMU, where he received his master's degree in 2024. In his work, he develops a distinctive film language based on the use of tools such as game engines, photogrammetry, CGI, and artificial intelligence. He presented his film A Place (2020) at the Ji.hlava IDFF.

film details

director:	Tomáš Rampula
producer:	Tomáš Rampula

contact

Alexandra Hroncová / Cinefila
alex@cinefila.cz