Exquis is an experimental interactive film currently in development and slated to release in January 2022.

When I was in elementary school, my teacher taught me a game in which you take turns drawing a picture with other artists with the paper folded so you can’t see what they’ve drawn. I was delighted by the end portraits - a goat-headed muscular man with a mermaid tail, or an amorphous blob with the head and legs of a beauty queen. Those characters were so much more interesting than anything I could come up with on my own, and I loved realizing that we had created new, beautiful monsters. It wasn’t until I was older I learned the name of that game: Exquisite Corpse.

Exquis is a modern exquisite corpse; 10 actors have been gathered and told to record their dreams, and then those dream videos will be placed into an interactive online experience featuring multiple paths and endings. No two views will be the same. Sure, you could choose to keep resetting Exquis to follow one person’s dream through to its conclusion, but it’s my hope that you will choose to give into the monstrous beauty and get lost in a maze of dreams.

See you in January.
Rebecca