Fractal Bridge Screenplay

Fractals are quite visual and so film is an ideal medium for expressing the idea of Fractals. But rather than the many moving graphics that depict Fractals as art, The Fractal Bridge is a screenplay that demonstrates Fractals through the multi-dimensionality of a group of people in dialogue (much like those that occur at the Fractal Salons).

The Fractal Bridge is a film with many similarities to Dinner With Andre (1991), Kapra's Mindwalk (1991), Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise (1993), Linklater's Waking Life (2002), and the Academy Award for Best Screenplay a few years ago--Alexander Payne's Sideways (2004).

Mindwalk is a beautiful film based on Fritjof Kapra's Turning Point, a philosophy about solving some of the world's many problems through a "Systems Theory" approach. The three main characters in Mindwalk meet on the mysterious Medieval city of Mont St. Michel in Normandy. A female PhD Nuclear Scientist, an award-winning poet, and an ex-Democratic Presidential candidate slowly wander through the city while conversing on system theory topics and weaving together a variety of subjects related to issues such as sustainability, nuclear war, effective democracy, sub-atomic physics, the beauty of poetry and literature, andthe meaning of other related aspects of life.

Fractal Bridge is a screenplay and soon to be a film about a memorable--if not legendary--gathering of several friends who have a dinner party and discussion that alters their perspectives and lives forever. Each of them has a unique areas of expertise--Math, Science, Astronomy, Philosophy, History, Literature, Languages and Spirituality. To the flicker of candles they forge a discussion about creativity, the arts, the nature of relationship and the meaning of life.

Their discussion at first reveals what seems to be their fundamental differences in perspective. But after some time they loosen the grip that their disciplines have on their conversation style, and they soon also discover that behind their differing positions is a unifying and often beautiful principle, essence and understanding that they all share. They settle into the moment with each other, share more deeply about their own personal lives, and find that they are speaking about different aspect of the same phenomenon (feeling different parts of the same elephant). That unifying principle, they agree, is best expressed as the metaphor of a Fractal and Interconnectedness.

On this life-altering night their seemingly separate worlds are brought together as if they were traveling together on a very special bridge--"The Fractal Bridge!"