Barbie and Bert play tarot with your destiny in 6 chaotic minutes.
Short film version of the app – loosely based on tarot – the maker developed as a graduation project. Barbie dolls and Lego versions of Bert and Ernie play the lead roles. Instagram filters give them all sorts of layers, emotions, and identities. The game enables players to discover their life’s goal.
Production
Instagram filters as legitimate storytelling device—somehow works?
Practical Effects
Bert and Ernie Lego minifigs delivering your cosmic fate.
Director
Roos van der Jagt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of 'app-to-film' graduation projects where Dutch art students turn UX prototypes into micro-cinema experiments.
The actual Taro app was built as a functional tarot tool before the film existed—this is essentially a commercial that ate its own product.
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