What was a unique challenge you faced in making this film?
The film was made over a period of two years. There was a lot downtime between shoots. Everyone involved, myself included, were busy with other projects, other lives, other jobs. It took a good deal of focus and trust to keep popping back in sporadically to assemble a film so singular and so strange. Not to mention maintaining our lead performer’s haircut.
Where did the inspiration for this film come from?
I get inspired by physical spaces. The whole film was shot, with two exceptions, in and around one large and cavernous building that was formally a textile factory. You could sense the history in the stairwells. It always felt in-between time there. That and I had read an article about UBV-76, which is a mysterious shortwave radio signal transmitted from a Russian swamp that no one claims ownership of. Gwyneth Anderson (the lead performer and animator) and I had collaborated on previous projects and this became the perfect vehicle for us to create this new world.