“The Virtual Llama is beautifully shot and a great sci-fi concept…sparking our minds onto an interesting idea but leaves room for debate and discussion.”

Kate Herron

Director: Disney - Loki, Netflix - Sex Education

As of August 2022 The Virtual Llama has started its festival run. As it gets selected for festivals, the viewing dates will be shown below.

The Virtual Llama will publicly Premiere in 2023 and will be available on Owl In Space’s YouTube and Vimeo channels.

To get the beautiful, organic look of Llama, Cinelab and their fantastic team put Llama through a process known as a ‘film out’. A process that converts digital to analogue film - in our case a deliciously grainy 16mm.

To do this, Cinelab took Llama in its digital form, recorded it to celluloid film (16mm Kodak 50D film stock), processed and then scanned our film back to digital. The video below shows the difference between Llama on Kodak, and Llama in its original digital form.

Producer - Nick Brier

Nick has drawn together a background in studio engineering and music production, his experience in music composition, sound design and film editing, and training in business management and finance, in order to produce his first short film - The Virtual Llama.

CREDITS

Last Trip To Space (in production), The Virtual Llama 2022, Living Things 2020, Protest 2019, Science & Eternity 2019, The Future of Cities 2019

Director of Photography - Simeon Geyer

Growing up in Germany, and now based in London, Simeon focusses on his passion for stories that touch on the beauty and hardships of everyday life, dynamically combining technical know how with an eye for visual aesthetics.

CREDITS

The Virtual Llama 2022, Mermaids 2021, ADIDAS ‘FW20 Cage’ 2020, King of Heaven 2017

Born in 1989, Tom grew up in the technological revolution of the nineties and noughties, leading to his fascination with stories about how people relate to technology.

His love of tech led him to study engineering at Cambridge University, graduating in 2012 with a Masters of Engineering and a Master of Arts. Following this, Tom became a pastor at a Church, investing in people’s lives and discovering how their personal stories map onto the bigger spiritual questions of life, the universe, and everything. Pursuing his progressive interest in philosophy, Tom then graduated from Oxford University in 2015, reading Theology and Philosophy.

In 2016, Tom started working for the BBC amongst other production companies, in producer and directorial roles, where he developed films at the intersection of technology and existentialism, eventually starting his own production company ‘Owl In Space’. 

In 2019 Tom’s company received funding from Templeton Religion Trust, and Hong Kong University to produce two dramatised documentary series called “Science & Eternity”, and “The Future of Cities” respectively. These projects synthesised cutting edge research in the science and technology space, with intimate human stories, and are where Tom cut his teeth writing and directing smart, spiritual Sci-Fi. Having produced electronic music since the age of 16, Tom also found a home for his music passions in these films.

In 2020 Tom received funding from Templeton Religion Trust to create Living Things, a Sci-Fi short starring David Gyasi (Interstellar, The Cloud Atlas) and shot at 4200m elevation in the Swiss alps. The film was selected for a number of festivals including Ramsgate, Sci-Fi London, New Renaissance, and Berlin SciFi Film Festival. 

The Virtual Llama builds on Tom’s brand of smart, spiritual SciFi, and represents his desire to create features and series, which reveal the deep questions brought up by our progressive dependence on, and integration with advanced technologies and AI.