SUNSET MOTEL is an immersive project in virtual reality in collaboration with Swiss illustrator Thomas Ott and based on his graphic work.
Lost on Route 66 in the Californian desert, the SUNSET MOTEL is a mysterious place populated by marginal figures from the universe of Thomas Ott. The adventure begins when travellers, equipped with their VR headsets, arrive ‘as tourists’ in the SUNSET MOTEL lobby, playing the role of a new guest who encounters, from one space to the next, the ghostly presences that haunt this place of shadows.
Produced by Cie Gilles Jobin, Nadasdy Films in Geneva, along with Floréal in Paris, the artistic intent behind this work is to augment Thomas Ott’s drawings, offering viewers a deep dive into the artist’s highly unique universe.
Away from time and swept by the wind, SUNSET MOTEL reveals, to those who know how to look, the traces of forgotten guests. Would SUNSET MOTEL be an antechamber; the embodiment of the Limbus (Limbo), where the souls of the dead await before reaching their final destination: the light ?
Credits
Author and director : Gilles Jobin
Author et illustrator: Thomas Ott
Cast: Rudi van der Merwe, Lucille Mansas, Malika Toto Garcia, Ivan Larson, Susana Panadés Diaz, Gilles Jobin
Main 3D Artist : Tristan Siodlak
Main choreographic artist: Susana Panadés Diaz
Unity developper: Adryan Barriliet
Sound : Marky Edelmann, Ramon Orza
Motion capture and post-production : Studio 44 MocapLab – Geneva
Mocap Master : Adryan Barrilliet
Mocap Assistant: Michael Dervey
Production : Cie Gilles Jobin – Gilles Jobin / Nadasdy Films – Nicolas Burlet
With the participation of SRG-SSR, Media Desk CH, Cinéforom and the support of Loterie Romande, SRG/SSR, Pôle de Création Numérique de l’Office fédéral de la culture (OFC), MEDIA Desk Suisse and Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC)