Venus From Mars

Duration: 5m22s

Genre: Sci-Fi, Mixed Media

Synopsis:

Driven by an obsession with humans, Venus comes to Earth to learn about them up close after drinking a potion that disguises her identity as an alien. She discovers photography and begins to truly understand the human experience, until one click changes Earth’s reality forever.

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Artist Statement:

After going to England for a semester on exchange, I reconnected with photography. Then my first semester back at Emily Carr, I learned about an alternate photo process called cyanotype. This inspired me to create a story that centred these two art forms in a subtle way, while staying true to the weird style of filmmaking I love. This film symbolizes how a photographer’s perspective, intentional or not, can change the reality of a moment. Street photography is an art form that is meant to capture those real human moments, but what that means is different to every person holding a camera.

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_TRAILER

_CREDITS

Director/Writer:
Adi Gortler

Starring:
Dini McIver

Performances by:
Terris Tan, Matisse Fillotto, and Emilia J Tolnai

Director of Photography:
Kenzie Lang

Assistant Director:
Kailey Stillwell

Production Design:
Adi Gortler, Rabecca Talbot

Set Dressers:
Rabecca Talbot, Parmiss Rad

Carpenters:
Aimee Swartz, Rabecca Talbot, Hayden Lim, Andy Martin, and Mairin Garayt

Key Grip:
Weston Bui

Grips:
Olivia Henderson, Nathan Hayward

Makeup Artist:
Tomás Herrera

Hair/Wardrobe:
Adi Gortler

Script Supervisor:
Tyler Nelson

Production Assistants:
Lily Taban, Izzy Seow

Cyanotype Animation:
Adi Gortler

Spaceship Animation:
Adi Gortler, Noa Gortler

Editor:
Brayden Fraser

Colourist:
Kenzie Lang

Sound Design:
Adi Gortler, Brayden Fraser

Music:

“Crazy” by Pylon,

“What We All Want” by Gang of Four,

“L.A.” by The Fall,

“Venus Meets Pluto” by Eve’s Plum,

“Disorder” by Joy Division

_{SPECIAL THANKS TO}

Geoffrey Wallang

Yair Gortler

Noa Gortler