Project Detail

To Miss the Ending

Synopsis

This hypnotic VR narrative unfolds around 5 characters, increasingly struggling to access their uploaded memories. Set in a breathtaking visual landscape, this dystopian future unravels slowly around you, leaving you challenged to re-think your own beliefs and actions. It’s an exploration of a possible future that says much about our present lives.
Imagine a world where there is no air left to breathe, no rivers to race a paper boat on and no parks to roam in. Environmental damage, job-automation, the breakdown of personal connections have led to a future where the best choice of survival is to upload your own memories into an automated AI cloud server and reconnect with loved ones in the vastness of the net.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2021

Details

Year
2020
Type of film
Shorts
Running time
28 min
Format
VR Teathered Headset
Director
Anna West, David Callanan
Producer
Steph Clarke
Executive Producer
Dan Tucker
Screenwriter
Anna West (Screenwriter), Theatre 42 (Original Story By)
Production Designer
David Callanan
Sound
We Make Audio
Composer
Jamie Finlay
Principal cast
Charlotte Berry, Michael Dodds, Houmi Miura, Ben Kulvichit, Anna West
Animation
David Callanan, Joe Whitmore

Production Status

Production Company

An idontloveyouanymore and Tyneside Cinema Production for New Creatives, supported by BBC Arts and Arts Council England

idontloveyouanymore

Hedgerows
Gullet Lane
Kirby Muxloe
Leicester
LE9 2BL

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