STARLINGS OF THE HYPERREAL
Short, 2021
Production Designer - Amelia Hutchinson
Art Director - Atoosa Monazami
Director - Harrison Leech
Producer- Andrew Goode
Director of Photography- Jesse Gohier-Fleet
Set in an alienating, modern dystopia, Starlings of the Hyperreal follows Lara, a young and subversive woman suffering from unrequited love for her former lover. Lara’s troubles begin when she signs her identity over to a mysterious marketing agency called Sim-M. Sim-M offers Lara the opportunity to live her subconscious desires in a simulated “hyperreal” world, the catch, the hyperreal simulation is recorded and used for product placement. Quickly becoming addicted to the service, Lara falls down the rabbit hole of her subconscious and the distinction between the real and the virtual blur into a paranoiac haze. Confronted by the fact that the love from her lover in the simulated world is reciprocated in reality, Lara faces a choice, to live in her idyllic simulation, or face a reality she can no longer recognise.
Copyright Amelia Hutchinson, 2021. All Rights Reserved.
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Image credit. Tom Gillfillam