Doppelgänger Tag Archive

Live Action, Premiere

A Screenwriting Professor Experiences a Kafkaesque Descent in Harry Sherriff’s ‘Jeremy: A Nightmare’

Harry Sherriff returns to reveal how his creative development at the NFTS informed his latest nightmarish comedy about a man pitted against his doppelgänger.

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Music

Alex Cook’s Ghostly Sci-Fi Short for Son Lux’s ‘Undertow’ Sees a Man Haunted by an Ethereal Doppelgänger

Alex Cook delineates the process of creating the VFX for the flowing, ghost-like liquid featured in his short film/music video hybrid for Son Lux.

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Live Action

Michael Socha Sees Double in Uzo Oleh’s Gripping, Mind-Bending Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Edicius’

Uzo Oleh details the motion control and in-camera practical effects he deployed to ask if we can trust our intuition in his moody sci-fi chamber piece.

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Live Action, Premiere

A Woman Is Forced to Confront Her Inner Child in Cat Ventura’s Surprising Comedy ‘Holly Goes to Therapy’

"My biggest goal was the pace leading up to the reveal" A woman endures an unconventional therapy session in Cat Ventura's 'Holly Goes to Therapy'.

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Live Action

Zack Campbell Gets Over the Vegas Prenuptial Jitters in Neon Short ‘Animal Fiction’

DN speaks to Zack Campbell about how a night of free form shooting led to ‘Animal Fiction’, his contemplative short about the nature of love and

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Art & Fashion, Live Action

Crossing Genres Across a Culture of Subtraction in Ramón Ayala’s Fashion Sci-Fi Short ‘People Like Us’

Ramón Ayala tells DN how his fashion film transformed beyond genre into a sci-fi tinged improvised meditation on enduring love, culpability & otherness.

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Asides, Music

David Bowie: The Stars (Are Out Tonight)

Whilst we were more perplexed than impressed by the first promo to arrive from David Bowie’s forthcoming album The Next Day, Floria Sigismondi has

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Music

Clubfeet: Everything You Wanted

Isn’t that always the way, you wait months for a doppelgänger style promo to come along then two arrive in the same day. This one comes from director

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Art & Fashion, Live Action, Podcasts

DN257: The Animals – Angeline Gragasin

Angeline Gragasin joins us to discuss her surreal short The Animals, a film that plays with motifs of death and food to deliver a story which rewards those

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