INTERVIEW: web designer of pioneering movie site Requiem for A Dream

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Published on November 15, 2010 12:34:35 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc1hfbKs1W8

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It's a 2000 site for the spaced-out art movie Requiem for a Dream that did things with websites that no-one had ever done before. The designers wanted to create a website that mimicked the effects drug addiction. The result is still avant-garde

Playing with space and time, and tracing the stories for the 4 main characters in Darren Aronofsky's film. It sits half way between a website and short film and uses stuff like html on the front-end of the site to give the effects of weird deconstruction.

Alexandra from design company High Res told us about it..

NB: the camera couldn't cope with the old Mac screen so the video flickers - but you can get the gist.