Entity

Entity (2014)

Minutes after the technical failure of her spacecraft, an astronaut finds herself ejected from her cockpit and into space. She tries in vain to contact to the base to obtain help. Her oxygen level diminishes slowly but surely. Little by little, fear grabs hold of her. She faints... After floating adrift for several hours through the immensity of space, she awakens to find herself facing a strange and mysterious entity, taking the shape of an immense colored cloud.

Date of release
2014-06-28
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (7)
Runtime
15m
Genres
Science Fiction
Director
Andrew Desmond

Casting

Interesting facts

Entity is a 2014 English-language French short science-fiction horror film directed by Andrew Desmond and co-written by Jean-Phillipe Ferré about an astronaut who is stranded in deep space and has a close encounter with a sentient entity in the form of a nebula. Entity is Desmond's third film, the previous two also being shorts, Doppelganger and Epilogue. The first French short film to have its sound mixed in Dolby Atmos, Entity has been selected for over eighty film festivals and received, among other honours, a Best Visual Effects Award from both the Hollywood Horror Fest and the FilmQuest Film Festival. Reviews have been favourable, particularly for the short's visual effects.

Production

Producers Laurent Fumeron and Frédéric Rossignol founded the independent video production company RossProd, which specialises in short films and music videos, in 2010. The company's previous short film, Alexandra Torterotot's Once Upon a Bench (2012), was commissioned by the Swiss public television station RTS, and won an award for Best Short at the Warsaw Jewish Film Festival.

Andrew Desmond and Jean-Philippe Ferré began work on the project in 2012, thinking to make a short science-fiction film set in space that would be five minutes long and which could be done quickly. Instead, the project lasted two years from concept to release. The production team working on Entity was a small one, all unpaid volunteers, with Fumeron also serving as production manager, and J.-P.

The film was produced exclusively with French funds, with money invested by RossProd and with donations obtained through crowdfunding website Ulule in 2013, specifically for principal photography, that is, renting the camera, lights, grip, and the studio, as well as expenses such as food, truck rentals, and so on.

Principal photography took place in studio in Paris over two days in February 2013. Only Alias Hilsum's face was filmed; a year followed of editing, visual effects, conforming, colour grading, music and sound effects. In fact, 80% of the film consists of "digital imagery and special effects".

For the 3D film shots, different types of software were used: the spaceship was done in Cinema 4D using VRAY for rendering and the astronaut in her suit was created in 3DSMAX, also using VRAY, then everything was composited back into After-Effects: "I think we pushed AE to the maximum of its capabilities, especially in terms of 2D compositing." When all the CGI was finished, each shot was rendered in several layers, at RebusFarm.

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