The making of Stray Machines
Behind the camera, among the models, sets and practical effects that brought Peter's world to life.
A Peter Poole film
An independent science-fiction odyssey
STRAY
MACHINES
Lost worlds. Strange life.
A vision brought back to light.
Meccasphere ambience · From the film’s sound world
The world of Stray Machines
Salvage.
Survival.
Strange machines.
A salvage mission. A hostile world. Something stirring in the machinery. Enter Peter Poole's handmade science-fiction universe of scavengers, spacecraft and strange mechanical life.
Built through models, miniature sets and live-action filmmaking, this is a world shaped by hand and imagination. Originally known as Scavengers, the project grew from ideas Peter first explored in 1987, with its main live-action filming completed in 2008.
First transmission
Watch the Stray Machines trailer.
One-minute teaser · Released
Watch on YouTube ↗On the horizon
The next chapter is coming.
The film is being brought together from Peter's surviving footage. Return here for the release, alongside companion films that open up the story behind the screen.
In preparation · Release date to be announcedUnused footage & alternate takes
Another look into the archive: moments, variations and experiments beyond the finished edit.
From original story to adaptation
Peter's screenplay and storyboards alongside the surviving footage, exploring how the new edit interprets his original ideas.
A labour of imagination. An act of remembrance.
Peter's world.
A continuing story.
Peter left Stray Machines unfinished. His brother Martin is bringing the surviving material together as a tribute to his creativity, making the film available for others to discover.
This new assembly is an interpretation of the footage Peter left behind. The accompanying archive films will offer a closer look at his process, his original plans and the choices involved in bringing the story to the screen.
Remembering Peter PooleAlready in the archive · 2010
A message from the salvage team.
A ten-minute extra assembled from spacecraft-set material, in which a salvage team restores power in a deserted craft and activates a servo robot to demonstrate the controls.
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