In the semi submerged London of 2053, the reigning hoverboard world champion finds herself imprisoned in a luxury high-rise apartment by her controlling manager. The kindness of a stranger allows her to take flight in a daring and precarious escape - but all does not go as planned. Can bleeding-edge new memory extraction technology help save her from certain death?
Direction
Tim Webber's gravity-defying single-take illusion
Visual Effects
Seamless verticality—you'll swear it's practical
Production
Drowning London production design on a short budget
Director
Tim Webber
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot entirely on a 40-foot vertical LED volume, making it one of the first shorts to use The Mandalorian-style virtual production.
Webber, a VFX veteran from Gravity, designed the flooded London by studying real 2021 Thames flood projections.
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