Your shadow's been watching. And it's finally had enough of you.
A shadow self seeks revenge. The shadow builds a body with which to extract the life that taunts him by it's very existence. Can be described as a day time ghost story. A daytime ghost story done to a remix of Purple Prelude by Elena Kats Churnin. The shadow self removed from participation with the self exists but resents the access to the real that same self has and so plots to recover the echo of it's lost living any way it can.
Direction
Hughes crafts visceral dread from simple shadow-play.
Score
Elena Kats-Churnin's Purple Prelude remix haunts long after.
Practical Effects
Stop-motion body construction that's genuinely unsettling.
Director
Hobart Hughes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Nosferatu keywords aren't accidental — Hughes channels Murnau's physicality of monstrous longing into abstract form.
Churnin's Purple Prelude was composed for solo piano; Hughes's remix treatment literalizes the 'shadow' of the original work.
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