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 2
THE SEVEN-STORY BUILDING
VR standalone | 6DoF | 360 Vidoes | France, UK, Taiwan, Luxembourg, South Korea | 2021 | color | 10 Min
Tsai ming-liang
Tsai Ming-Liang doesn’t have a “missing picture”, but what he does have are childhood memories, so vivid that it is impossible for him to film. The Taiwanese maestro of slow cinema seizes the medium of virtual reality to go back to the Malaysia of his childhood, when his grandparents took him to see two movies every night. Rather than telling us about an unmade film, Tsai Ming-Liang transforms the exercise into a making-of of his entire film career.
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.
co-director
kuan-yuan lai
Kuan-Yuan LAI is a multi-media visual arts creator. His VR projects 《The Train Hamasen》《Pneumo Hacker》《Diving into Siraya》have been selected for numerous festivals.
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DIRECTOR: Clement DENEUX, LAI Kuan-yuan
EXECULTIVE PRODUCER: Antoine Cayrol, Arnaud Colinart, Fred Volhuer, Pierre Zandrowicz, Philip Kalin-Hajdu, Estela Valdivieso Chen, Adam Cullen Young, Hélène Walland, Christian Neumann, Jay Kim, Sooyoung Choe, Rene Hyewon LeeMina Hyeon, Sugon Kim
PRODUCER: Antoine CAYROL, Estela Valdivieso CHEN, Marianne LEVY-LEBLOND, Lamia DABOUSSY, Oriane HURARD
ANIMATION: Che Cheng Li
MUSIC: Thomas Foguenne
CAST: Tsai Ming-liang
PRINT SOURCE: Serendipity Films Ltd.