Meaning Of The Hour Blue

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Why the name "The Hour Blue"?

I chose the name from the French, L'Heure bleue, which is a term to describe the hour after the sun sets, when everything around you gets a bluish cast. I read about the term in the book, Kayaking The Keys, by Kathleen Patton. I kayak relatively often, especially in th Florida Keys and she describes the Keys as the best place in the world to see L'Heure bleue, because the blue of the post-sunset blends with the blue of the calm waters, and the line between earth and sky is no longer clear.

I like that concept as a starting point for a film, and I also use it as a way to describe what Ray Kurzweil calls "the singularity".

The Hour Blue will deal with the moral and ethical confusions of the time in the near future when the line blurs between humans, their machines, software, and biology - and how this affects the spirit of the world and its inhabitants.

-R