Project Detail

Devil In The Room

Carla Mackinnon

Synopsis

Have you ever woken in the night unable to move, certain that you are not alone? This is an experimental documentary examining what happens when dreams leak into waking life. It is about what is real, what is not, and if it even matters.

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Details

Year: 2013
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 8 mins
Format: HDV
Director: Carla MacKinnon
Producer: Animation Staff, Royal College of Art
Executive Producer: Royal College of Art
Editor: Carla MacKinnon
Screenwriter: Carla MacKinnon
Production Designer: Carla MacKinnon
Sound: Dominic de Grande
Composer: Dominic de Grande
Principal cast: Victoria Grove, Anne-Sophie Marie, Christopher French V/O's
Animation: Carla MacKinnon, Christian Schlaeffer
Model making: Anna Ginsburg
Sound Mix: Mike Wyeld

Genre

Experimental Woman Director

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Animation Department

Royal College of Art
Kensington Gore
London SW7 2EU

+44 (0) 20 7590 4512

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James Mullighan

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