{"id":6470,"date":"2025-11-16T14:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neonorma.lv\/portfolio\/puteklu-pastardiena\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T19:29:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:29:56","slug":"dusty-doomsday","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/neonorma.lv\/en\/portfolio\/dusty-doomsday\/","title":{"rendered":"Dusty Doomsday"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u201cDusty Doomsday\u201d is an urban fantasy about Schwamme Jr. – a perfectionist inventor living in sterile isolation, haunted by his father\u2019s legacy as the creator of the sponge. When a construction crew arrives to relocate his house, his obsessive order collides with outside chaos, triggering a surreal chain of events that forces him to confront the futility of control.
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The film is an urban fantasy about the fear of change and the illusion of control, told through a highly stylized, wordless cinematic language. By embracing fantasy, humor, and physical comedy, the film aim to portray perfectionism not only as a psychological trap, but also as something fragile and absurd. The protagonist\u2019s attempt to isolate himself from dust and chaos becomes a metaphor for escaping imperfection and the outside world, until that fragile order is inevitably broken.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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CAST & CREW<\/strong><\/p>

Director <\/strong>– Alv\u012bna Jansen<\/span><\/p>

Producer <\/b>– Em\u012bls Alps<\/p>

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Art Director<\/span><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0– D\u017eeina Lub\u0101ne<\/p>

Makeup artist<\/span><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0– Lu\u012bze Stare<\/p>

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Cast <\/strong>– Aleksandrs Aleksandrovs, Lilija S\u016bna, Mi\u0137elis \u017dide\u013c\u016bns, R\u016bdolfs Apse, Jur\u0123is L\u016bsis, Miks Romanovskis, D\u0101vis \u0160moteks, Ingus I\u013cju\u010donoks, Gustavs I\u013cju\u010donoks

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