VERTAGT – VFX for a dystopian satire

What does the cultural programme actually look like in a dystopia? The short film Vertagt depicts the end-time scenario of a humanity that has not achieved its climate goals. What could our future look like – if human life still exists?

And above all: how will we look back on our mistakes today? In Adjourned, our contemporary climate summits are already a historical relic, a classic theatre play from the past. Having failed to fulfil their actual task, their former existence now serves only serves to amuse a few survivors. In the dystopia, our present-day climate theatre becomes a perfect source of satire. We realised this in our second film at the HFF Munich under the direction of Prof. Jürgen Schopper as follows. In the second year of our training, as visual effects students at HFF Munich, we had the opportunity for the first time to develop a short film idea together with other departments at the university, such as production, camera and screenplay, which had to be realised with the help of visual effects. The advantage of this co-operation was that the effort and feasibility of potential visual effects shots could already be planned down to the smallest detail during script development. We tried to work as closel...


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