"immerse"
short film

design, direction and post production by we are om - (anton groves, damian groves, richard hardy) 2008

www.weareom.com

Our self assigned brief was to make a short film under 3 minutes that would represent our second collaboration together as 'we are om'.
The intention was to make a piece that was both conceptually and visually strong, making full use of the short time to open, describe and close a story that would inspire.

The creative challenges of the project were prominant when we first conceived it, due to its fantastical nature and our will to cleverly place this fantasy within a real life context. We liked the idea of creatively questioning the microscopic level of existence, the 'inner space' that exists all around us but that we are unable to see. Perhaps what happens in that space is not what we initially expect. Taking this concept further we liked the idea of slowing down the split-second physical and chemical reactions that take place within this space and giving them a more romantic, fantastical explanation. What would a world look like, with an industrial army of microscopic machines, working away to satisfy the scientific laws that humans have developed to describe effervescence in water? If this is what really happens in the everyday life situation described in 'immerse', then what about all of the other invisible physical reactions that take place all around us?

Biographies

Anton Groves – graduated from Westminster university, London in 2002. Shortly after he left to Romania, and has been working on commercials and short films ever since. In 2006 he won the Best International Filminute award for his one minute production ‘Line’. This represented the first film as We Are Om (in collaboration with Damian Groves).

Damian Groves graduated from the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) in 2006 together with his colleague Richard Hardy. With a similar goal in mind they both teamed up and now make a part in the collaboration trio We Are Om, designing and art directing.