''Dimensions'' is a 2011

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-love story film set in the 1920s and 1930s. The film was directed by

Sloane U’Ren Sloane U'Ren is a British-American Director, Art Director, and Set Designer based in the UK. In 2012 she made her directorial debut with the multi-award winning feature film Dimensions (2011 film), aka ''Dimensions: A Line, A Loop, A Tangle o ...

and written by her spouse

Ant Neely Ant Neely is an English composer and musician, known for an eclectic style. Career Neely attended Glasgow University and holds a degree in Zoology. After graduating, he studied jazz guitar at the Musician's Institute in Hollywood, Los Angeles ...

. The film is U’Ren’s feature film directorial debut and is also known as ''Dimensions: A Line, A Loop, A Tangle of Threads''. ''Dimensions'' premiered as part of the 2011 Cambridge Film Festival (U.K.) and outsold, per screen, the U.K. premieres of ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. After the Cambridge screenings, the film underwent a minor re-edit and was finished in early 2012. ''Dimensions'' was voted Best Film 2012 at the 37th Boston Science Fiction Film Festival and awarded the Gort Award. Previous Gort Award winners have included

Duncan Jones Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones (born 30 May 1971) is a British film director, film producer and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the films ''Moon'' (2009), ''Source Code'' (2011), ''Warcraft'' (2016), and ''Mute'' (2018). For ''Moon'', ...

' ''

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''. The film went on to win Best Film at the London Independent Film Festival and Best Film at the Long Island International Film Expo. Director Sloane U'Ren was also awarded Best Director at the Long Island International Film Expo.

Plot

The film follows Stephen, a brilliant young scientist who lives in

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, in what appears to be the 1920s. His world is turned upside down upon meeting a charismatic and inspirational professor at a garden party, who demonstrates to Stephen and his friends what life would be like if they were one-, or two-dimensional beings. He then proceeds to explain that by manipulating other dimensions, time travel may actually be possible. Soon after the professor's visit, Stephen, his cousin, Conrad, and his neighbor, Victoria, were fooling around by a well. Conrad throws Victoria's skipping rope down the well. The nanny catches the boys rolling around fighting and drags them into the house by the ears, leaving Victoria alone to play outside by herself. After some time, she decides to climb down the well to get her skipping rope. She never climbs out of the well and her body is never found. As Stephen’s life unfolds, events lead him to dedicate himself to turning the Professor’s theories of time travel into reality. Jealousy, love, obsession, temptation and greed surround him, influencing his fragile mind and the direction of his work.

Cast

Henry Lloyd-Hughes Henry Lloyd-Hughes (born 11 August 1985) is an English actor. He is known for his roles in ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'' (2005), ''Unrelated'' (2007), ''The Inbetweeners'' (2008–2010), '' Miliband of Brothers'' (2010), '' Weekender' ...

as Stephen *

Camilla Rutherford Camilla Rutherford (born 20 September 1976) is an English actress and fashion model. Early life Camilla Rutherford was born to (Gordon) Malcolm Rutherford (1939-1999), a financial journalist for the ''Financial Times'' and sometime advisor to ...

as Jane *

Patrick Godfrey Patrick Lindesay Archibald Godfrey (born 13 February 1933) is an English actor of film, television and stage. Life and career Godfrey was born in Finsbury, London to Rev. Frederick Godfrey and Lois Mary Gladys (née Turner). In 1956 Godfrey ...

as The Professor *

Olivia Llewellyn Olivia Anna Cristina Llewellyn (born 1980) is an English actress, best known for her television appearances portraying Isabel Danforth in ''The Lizzie Borden Chronicles'' and Mina Harker in ''Penny Dreadful''. Career Trained at the London Acade ...

as Annie * Sean Heart as Conrad *

Richard Heffer Richard Heffer (born 28 July 1946 in Cambridge) is a British actor, best known for his roles on television in the 1970s and 1980s. His film career included appearances in ''Women in Love'' (1969), '' Waterloo'' (1970), '' Penny Gold'' (1973), ''T ...

as Dr. Schmidt *

Georgina Rich Georgina Rich (born August 1976) is a British actress. Education Pursuing her love of dance, she left school in Dartford, Kent at 16 to attend the London Studio Centre in King's Cross. After three years of trying to make it as a profession ...

as Alice * James Greene as Old Man * Sam Harrison as Young Stephen * George Thomas as Young Conrad * Hannah Carson as Victoria

Production

Sloane U'Ren and Ant Neely have worked in the film industry for many years on large Hollywood films and television productions, U'Ren as art director and designer with Neely as a composer and musician. The couple wanted to make their own film for many years and rather than wait for a large studio to invest decided to produce the film independently, Neely said, "We could wait for someone to come knock on our door and get old waiting, or we could just go and do it." U'Ren and Neely sold their house to help finance the production, a move that caused some media attention in the UK. Principal photography started on 26 July 2010 and ended on 21 August 2010.Cast and Crew:
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' official page, 2009 ''Dimensions'' joins a small but growing list of feature films shot entirely using

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cameras, at times the film used three

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and a

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. The film was shot entirely in and around Cambridge, England including

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. Sloane U'Ren and Ant Neely, along with almost all of the cast, attended the world premiere: they introduced themselves before the screening, and answered questions about the project and how it was completed afterwards.

Music

The original score was composed by Neely and recorded at

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with the

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References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dimensions 2011 films 2011 science fiction films British science fiction films Films shot in England Films about time travel Films about parallel universes Films set in Cambridge Films set in 1921 Films set in 1936 2011 directorial debut films Films shot in Cambridgeshire 2010s English-language films 2010s British films