FOR EVERY MOVIE MADE,
DOZENS OF PICTURES REMAIN MISSING FOREVER.
MISSING PICTURES GIVES DIRECTORS A CHANCE
TO TELL THE STORY THAT WOULD OTHERWISE NEVER BE TOLD.
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Each unique in their own way,
the episodes reflect the character and experiences of the director
through animation and implanting the director via volumetric capture into the virtual world.
The series is at once an homage to the world of movie making
via a look into the complicated process of bringing a film to life,
and an important addition to the canon of cinema history
as an archive and a bridge builder between traditional 2D and VR storytelling.
Episode 3 Oh debu
PCVR | Standalone | 6DoF | 360 Vidoes | France, UK, Taiwan, Luxembourg, South Korea | 2022 | color | 14 Min
The most celebrated female filmmaker from Japan revisits a project that she envisioned after her 2015 film Sweet Bean. Oh Debu tells the story of Aya, an over romantic young woman very complexed by her weight. Through this story, Naomi Kawase wanted to give herself a challenge trying to make a comedy, far from her naturalist, poetic previous work.
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Born and raised in Nara, KAWASE graduated from Visual Arts Osaka in 1989. Her films, ‘Embracing’ and ‘KATATSUMORI’ received international recognitions and awards at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in 1995. With her first feature, SUZAKU (1997), she became the youngest filmmaker to receive the Camera d’Or at the Festival de Cannes with her. At the Fesitival de Cannes, she has also won the Grand Prix with The Mourning Forest /MOGARI (2007), the Carrosse d’Or in 2009, and also served as one of the jurors for the competition in 2013. In 2015, KAWASE was bestowed with the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) by the French Minister of Culture. In 2017,“Hikari”(RADIANCE) was selected as one of the competition films and given Ecumenical Jury awards. She appointed the direct Official Film of the Olympics Game Tokyo 2020.
Director Clément Deneux
Born in 1982, Clément Deneux first studied graphic design at the Ecole Estienne. He began creating title sequences. Between 2009 and 2011 he wrote and directed two horrific short films : The Nails, shot with a cellphone, and the viral Zombinladen. He has been focusing on the development of feature film projects ever since.
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A series directed by Clément Deneux
From an original idea by Joseph Beauregard
Produced by Atlas V, ARTE France, BBC, PTS, Serendipity Films, Wild Fang Films, Giioii
With the support from CNC, Pictanovo, Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Procirep-Angoa, TAICCA, Film Fund Luxembourg, RAPA and Ministry of Science and ICT (Republic of Korea)
Countries of production: France, UK, Taiwan, Luxemburg, South Korea
Year of production: 2022