LLAPSE - short film

"A visual metaphor of the positive and negative aspects of humanity, and its path on Earth."

Official website: http://llapse.net
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/llapse
Contact: contact@llapse.net

Story:

“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.” - TS ELLIOTT

Transience reflects the condition of every being in the universe seen through a sensitive, intellectual or even felt experience.
Even further, what humanity can’t describe, touch or identify is also linked to the same vanishing flow.
As big can be atoms or minuscule the stars, it’s all about sequences, pace, sudden apparitions or slow decay.
Humanity seems to have a unique potential in this constant struggle between life and entropy.
Whether our aptitudes help us prevail and evolve or instead accelerates our doom we have yet to decide.
That hesitation would come to an end with self-annihilation, but an end may just be a transition, a transformation.


Process:

Structured in a pseudo-timeline, the film is visually bringing a balance of positive and negative aspects in humanity. Slow or fast paced scenes, soft nature or hard concrete environments are shown as global human experience.
Initially a personal practice to bring mental concepts to life, this movie is achieved by two individuals, Julien Vanhoenacker as writer/director/VFX artist and Nicolas Vitte as music composer.
A great deal of computing power is needed to generate CGI images and the availability of the renderfarm of The Post Bangkok is a chance that allows this film to exist.
Creating these visual metaphors is a lengthy process spanning over many months. This allows ideas to be refined and become stronger in time, but also requires organisation, endurance and perfectionism, as well as the ability to stay focused on the initial intention.


Credits:

Writing / Direction:
JULIEN VANHOENACKER

CGI / VFX:
JULIEN VANHOENACKER

Music:
NICOLAS VITTE

Production / Renderfarm:
THE POST BANGKOK

Thanks:
YA CHUNG TENG
GABRIEL MAYMON
MOONTIARA SANPHECHUDA
PICHAYA POPANYASAK
APIWAT SRIMONGKOLKUL