"Short Film: ‘The Fantastic Corpse" by Fantastic Fest
If you've ever taken a creative writing class, chances are you've played the Rotating Corpse game. Well, that's how this short film was written.
The rules are simple. Several writers contribute to a single story one after the other without prior knowing what the other artists will contribute. The exercise is less about the disjointed final result and more about the restraint required to complete the project. A film crew at Fantastic Fest decided to shoot the result of their game, and the result is a short film experiment that works surprisingly well.
"The Fantastic Corpse is a short film project based on the exquisite corpse collaborative method. Dell Precision and AMD are working with creative content company Arts+Labor to bring five Fantastic Fest filmmakers together to create one short film, each filming an equal part, and continuing each others segment.
The first director (Oren Carmi, GOLDBERG AND EISENBERG) created the first minute, and then passed on to the next filmmaker (Nacho Vigalondo, TIMECRIMES). When the third filmmaker tagged in (Jim Byrkit, COHERENCE), he was only allowed to watch what Nacho had created before making his segment. The fourth filmmaker (Matt Johnson, THE DIRTIES) could only see what the third filmmaker shot, and so on until Eugenio Mira (GRAND PIANO) completed the Fantastic Corpse. It was screened at the Fantastic Fest Awards Ceremony, a mere 5 days after it began."
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