Status: In production
Release Date: 14/02/2023
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PRODUCTION
Item 7
COPRODUCTION
Belga Productions
PARTICIPATION
ARTE
Marco & Polo Go Round is an immersive love story. The narrative VR experience was produced using volumetric captures of actors driven by live action motion capture as well as traditional animation and physics simulations
Marco & Polo Go Round is a love story with a very surreal twist. A couple confronts the difficulties in their relationship as gravity turns on its head and their world literally falls apart around them.
On the morning of his birthday, Marco joins his girlfriend Polo in the kitchen but something strange is going on. The chairs are battened to the floor and the cupboard and fridge doors are taped shut. Polo doesn’t seem to notice. She’s just excited to present him with the cake she has just made.
Little by little, the couple’s areas of disagreement come to the surface and the joyful atmosphere soon turns to shock as various objects come loose and start to fly around them. “Marco & Polo Go Round” plunges the viewer into a young couple’s intimate relationship and invites them to physically experience the crisis they are going through as they navigate this distorted, topsy-turvy world.
This film uses several real-time approaches and technologies such as volumetric capture to preserve the glances and movements of the actors (Léane Labrèche-Dor and Emmanuel Schwartz).
ABOUT ITEM 7 Item 7 is a Montreal-based film production company headed by Pierre Even. Since its inception in 2009, Item 7 has produced 17 feature films, including Jean-Marc Vallée's CAFÉ DE FLORE, Kim Nguyen's Oscar-nominated WAR WITCH (REBELLE), and co-produced John Crowley's BROOKLYN, starring Saoirse Ronan. Recently released films include Kim Nguyen's THE HUMMINGBIRD PROJECT starring Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgard. In 2021, Lina Roessler's first feature film, BEST SELLERS, was presented at the Berlinale. This Canadian-British co-production stars Michael Caine and Aubrey Plaza. MARIA CHAPDELAINE, written and directed by Sébastien Pilote, and the VR short MARCO & POLO GO ROUND, Item 7's first foray into virtual reality, will open in 2021.
ABOUT BELGA Belga Productions specializes in assisting European film co-productions that carry out all or part of their production process in Belgium (principal photography, post-production, special effects). For example, in 2015 and 2016, Belga Productions provided co-production and production services to several large-scale international film projects, such as Thomas Vinterberg's "Kursk" or EuropaCorp's "Renegades". Belga Productions has also assisted several local productions in their production and financing efforts, notably by soliciting and obtaining local regional funds. Thanks to its links with Belga Films Fund and the Belga Films Group, the largest independent film distributor in the Benelux, Belga Productions offers a unique solution to European producers who are considering producing in Belgium: financing through its internal Tax Shelter Fund, distribution in the Benelux (including TV production deals), production services, application for regional funds, etc.
Founded in 1992, ARTE is a European public cultural television channel and a digital network focusing on creation and innovation. Over the past ten years, ARTE has co-produced a number of interactive creations such as the games Inua - A story in Ice and Time, Unmaze, Homo Machine, The Wanderer: Frankenstein's Creature and Vectronom. More information on the official website and the Twitter page of Arte Interactif.
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