Welcome to the website of Headspace Studios (Pty) Ltd. For more information please visit the drop down menus above.

The Producer's January 2008 rant.

Welcome to those of you coming aboard now. Get the full history of Cognition Factor. Scroll down to 2004 here.

The plot is simple. One person's quest for enlightenment in a digital age as he explores the 'big five' questions, questions that have been posed since humans were first capable of asking; "Who am I"?

Cognition Factor stitches live conversations with Terence Mckenna, brother Dennis Mckenna, along with Ralph Abraham, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Metzner, Alex Grey, and twenty more of the top thinkers of our times, into the plot. It's a narrated gonzo documentary, happening inside a 3D landscape backed by original compositions from top musicians like Lx Paterson, Dom Beken and Phil Le Gonedic, of The ORB, Merv Pepler (EatStatic/Ozrik Tentacles), Colin Angus& Matt Catt (The Shamen/Pablo_Sandoz), Steve Hillage (System 7) and ambient composer Indidginus.

Facing our deepest fears with hope and understanding, Cognition Factor seeks a new way of presenting word, picture, music and opinion to increasingly informed audiences who are sick and tired of media prescription. It's possibly the world's first 'smart movie'.

I want to use the byline; "A cyberpunk's search for enlightenment", but marketing assures me that this will not be understood by 'everyone'.

But maybe smart movies aren't for everyone, just smart people, or cyberpunks.

Which are you?

Mike

Producer - Cognition Factor
March 26th - 2008

Cognition Factor - Special Effects Teaser

Download the .mov teaser here. (10 MB.)

View on YouTube

There are some dynamic blogs dedicated to Cognition Factor on Myspace, TribeNet, FaceBook and movie teasers on YouTube.

Mike Kawitzky - Writer/Producer/Director/Editor/Special Effects/Compositor/Narrator