Missing Pictures: Birds of Prey

International immersive Works Competition

Missing Pictures: Birds of Prey


Swiss Premiere
Clément Deneux / France, United States, United Kingdom, Taiwan / 2020 / 8 min / Documentary, Animation
English / No subtitles

Abel Ferrara – President of the International Features Competition jury this year – has made many films, but like all filmmakers, he also worked on movies that never made it to the screen. Here is one of them, told and put into images in a superb VR project, the first chapter of a forthcoming series on missing cinema.

Birds of Prey is the title of a film that New York director Abel Ferrara was never able to realize. The virtual reality work Missing Pictures: Birds of Prey shows the preparatory work for the project while Ferrara tells the story of this unfinished movie and the reasons that forced him to abandon it. The first episode of a series that sets out to meet great filmmakers and reveal the invisible by evoking a series of “ghost films”.

Creation
Clément Deneux
Direction
Clément Deneux
Key collaborators
Abel Ferrara (Starring role), Arnaud Colinart (Co-Producer - Atlas V), Pierre Zandrowicz (Co-Producer - Atlas V)
Screenplay
Joseph Beauregard
Production
Atlas V (Antoine Cayrol), Albyon Studio (Vincent Dudouet), Arte France (Marianne Levy-Leblond)
Co-production
PTS (I Wen Tang), BBC (Lamia Dabboussy)
Executive Production
Atlas V (Arnaud Colinart), Atlas V (Antoine Cayrol)
With
Abel Ferrara
Contact
Atlas V (Danielle Giroux)

Clément Deneux / France, 1982
Filmography
2018, Une poursuite
2017, Jamais sur vos écrans
2011, Zombinladen, The Axis of Evil Dead