What if color was illegal and your blood was the currency?
In a post apocalyptic world, a young man fights to return the perception of color back to a dying society, which has become overrun by Imogen, a color enhancing drug harvested from humans.
Production
Achieves epic scope on shoestring budget
Direction
Tomko's visual storytelling maximizes every frame
Director
Matt Tomko
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Chicago with local theater actors during a brutal winter, using color-graded B&W to simulate the drug's effect.
The 'color as contraband' premise eerily predicted later films like 'Pleasantville' and 'The Giver' but with sharper class critique.
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