Equip - Neurotrance

Multinational art collective Equip describe themselves as “an experiment in creating a neural playground for artists with solid identities, each operating between different micro-genres to expand a self-contained story.” Their second project, Neurotrance, draws together a stellar crew including director and editor Paris Seawell, artists Zeynep S. Schelling & Enes Güç and musician Nobuto Hauama, otherwise known as SVBKVLT producer Prettybwoy, into the blast radius of “a psychic carpet bomb, showing different layers of realities all connected by a mysterious transformative energy – an adrenal overdrive that doesn’t conform and doesn’t relent.” Mapping a near future world of surrealist sci-fi landscapes, terraforming colonies and densely packed cities using a maximalist collision of live-action filmmaking, crisp CGI animation and brain-scrambling VFX, Neurotrance is a multidimensional head trip soundtracked by Prettybwoy’s intricate club sonics. Hurtling at warp speed through a series of dreamlike vignettes: two fatigued organic research scientists mishandling psychotropic substances, a monstrous orchid blossoming out of the tongue muscle and sinew of an unsuspecting old man, a glitched-out consciousness projection through alternate dimensions, the film is a hyper-saturated reflection of a world in which multiple realities, virtual, physical and pharmacological, are stacked one on top of each other. “I personally wanted to give birth to a new reality that is hard to recognise or put into a specific category,” explains VFX Director Enes Güç. “To get there it needed many different approaches in its creation process, as well as many different techniques.” Featuring contributions from artists and filmmakers from London, Berlin, Sydney, Tokyo, Los Angeles and more, Neurotrance refracts multiple imaginations into a single kaleidoscopic vision. You can find Equip on Instagram. Neurotrance Credits: Cast – Domenico Caccamo, David Tarpey, Bradley Scott, Abigail Hamilton, Middie Director – Paris Seawell Producer – Tamas Mesmer Music – Prettybwoy / Nobuto Hauama Director of Photography – Ruaraid Achilleos-Sarll Art Director – Zeynep S. Schilling VFX Director – Enes Güç Editor – Paris Seawell Sound Design and Mix – Will Golledge AD – Jack Barrie Set Designer – Finn O’Sullivan Styling & Costume – Detroit Law, Colette Dryburgh Hair & make-up – Lisa Chau Colorist – Gabe Sanchez, Roundhouse Post VFX Artists – Enes Güç, D P Ford, Paris Seawell Title Design – Hao-Ting Chu 1st AC – Ernest Tu 2nd AC – Joel Spence Gaffer – Johnny Ho, Jerzy Gudjonsson Spark – Lluc Mestre, Magdalena Maria VFX supervisor – Surhay Kılıç, Fuat Değirmenci Additional 3D modelling – Ezgi Şiir Rotoscoping & compositing – Akshay S R Studio manager – Corinna Luce, Studio Lucerne Production assistants – Piers Culpan, Shristi Rai Additional footage – Johannes Tito-Göhlich, Paris Seawell Special Thanks to Tom Jenkins (Squarepusher) Andy James (Beatink) Quan, Matthew Chan (fmlik), Jaden, Liav Ben Tolila