Trippy Trailer For CREATIVE CONTROL, A Movie About Virtual Reality
I don't really follow many developments in the tech world (I'm too busy keeping up with movies), but even I know that virtual reality is a very big deal and it's going to have a major impact on storytelling in the years to come. We're on the precipice of a new era, and right now, things are still sort of speculative; we can guess, but we don't currently know the heights this new medium can reach or the effects it might have on our society.
A new movie called Creative Control wonders what the world will be like not too far in the future, and this pretty trippy new trailer shows off some of the film's interesting ideas about how VR could leave its mark on relationships. The movie comes to theaters on March 11th.
The setting is New York, 5 minutes in the future. The glorious technological advances and communication devices of the near future meant to increase connectivity and alleviate boredom are only increasing the anxiety level of the insecure New Yorkers who've inherited them. David (writer/director Benjamin Dickinson) is an overworked, tech-addled advertising executive developing a high-profile marketing campaign for a new generation of Augmented Reality glasses. Feeling stuck in his relationship with yoga teacher Juliette (Nora Zehetner, BRICK, IFC's "Maron"), he envies the charmed life of his best friend, fashion photographer Wim (Dan Gill, THE WEDDING RINGER) and his entrancing girlfriend Sophie (Alexia Rasmussen, CALIFORNIA SOLO) - so he uses the glasses to develop a life-like avatar of her. Unwittingly, fantasy and reality begin to blur. As passions escalate and things get increasingly out of hand, the friends are forced to deal with the impending collision between their public, private and imaginary lives.