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SUBVERSE is a sci-fi web-series about the dark side of the Internet. Addiction. Dating. Privacy. Public shaming.

SYNOPSIS: In an alternate reality where everyone spends all their time indoors staring at computer screens, MAX agrees to go on a date in the 'outside' world. It doesn’t go well.
Filled with self-loathing, he returns home and plunges headfirst into a drunken, hallucinogenic trip through the dark net.

  • Joseph White
    Director
    The Brain Hack
  • Joseph White
    Writer
  • Julian Rad
    Producer
  • Eric Robinson
    Key Cast
    "Max"
  • Alexandra Rey
    Key Cast
    "Allison"
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Short, Web / New Media
  • Genres:
    Sci-Fi
  • Runtime:
    10 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    July 5, 2018
  • Production Budget:
    6,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Joseph White

Joe is an award-winning filmmaker and an alumnus of the London College of Communication. His graduation film TURN, won the NAHEMI Kodak Prize for Creative Film-making and his short THE BRAIN HACK screened at numerous festivals, including the BFI London Film Festival and Brussels International Short Film Festival. It also won Best Short at Sci-Fi London and the British Horror Film Festival among other awards.

Joe's directing credits include cinema and TV ads for BBC Radio 1 and promos for Nike, Samsung and HTC.

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Director Statement

These days so many sci-fi short films have photo-real, glossy, Hollywood-style VFX. With SUBVERSE we’re attempting something different. Something stripped back and minimal that’s all about the storytelling. We want to reignite that raw, rebellious, low-fi attitude of late night public access TV and early web design / digital art.

This isn’t a slick, polished virtual world like THE MATRIX or READY PLAYER ONE. Instead the SUBVERSE is a free-market virtual reality; a glitchy, chaotic kaleidoscope of competing styles where the peripheries are filled with low-resolution memes and click-bait vying for attention. We hope the result is as surreal, disorienting and strange as the internet itself.