For the third year running, Annecy’s artistic residency program accompanied three selected projects on a six-month adventure, beginning with a three-month script workshop before moving to Annecy’s …
A psychological horror film set in the suburbs of Wellington about a young woman rejected by her family in favor of her own doppelganger, “Shadow Work” is all about confronting, and ultimately embracing, the dark underbelly. Indeed, directors Areito Echevarria and Raqi Syed designed the project to charge straight into the uncanny valley, breaking all the rules they were taught to uphold during their illustrious careers in the VFX industry.
The project will use motion capture and real-time rendering, creating 3D images meant to discomfort rather than wow. At the Annecy residency, Echevarria and Syed partnered with screenwriter Patrick Somerville and “The City of Lost Children” director Marc Caro to hone the narrative and focus the project’s Jungian scope. “Le Dernier des Cailloux”
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