Neill Blomkamp has released his first short Rakka online through his Oats Studios banner. Rakka is the first short film from Blomkamp’s new set-up, which will be bringing three experimental films via YouTube and Steam, each running at around 20 minutes each. You can watch the Rakka short film below.
Rakka short film lands online from Neill Blomkamp’s Oats Studios
The Rakka short film stars Sigourney Weaver and is available online for free.
Blomkamp’s Oat Studios’ recently released their mission statement online through their official website.
Our wish is to receive funding sourced directly from our audience, as we establish a studio fuelled by pure creativity and passion. We have many, many more worlds to create and stories to tell, but we need help from people around the globe. Our goal is to create Volumes 2, 3, and more, and eventually, full scale-scale features.
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Rakka is the first film to land from Volume 1, and recently Blomkamp spoke to The Verge to talk about his decision to release the films on the video game platform Steam. Here’s what he had to say:
“So after thinking about it for a while, I came up with the idea. I needed a place that I could sell short films, and it felt like iTunes or any of the obvious outlets were massively lacking in any other avenues besides the films themselves. In other words: they don’t give users the ability to look at all of the behind the scenes artwork in any real way. The more I thought about that, the more it became, ‘What if the users had access to all of the 3D files that we used for the visual effects?’ If we just gave that away with any one-time purchase and you could render stuff yourself? Or what if we just give away all of the raw footage of one of the pieces, and anyone in the audience could they recut the the entire thing themselves? Stems from all of the music, or voiceovers from the actors; I just wanted to open it up and let people remix it.”
“After realizing that iTunes and stuff wasn’t the right avenue for that, I started thinking about a game platform like Steam. I felt like Valve is a really awesome company and I’ve always had a massive level of respect for Valve. So we started moving in the direction of putting stuff on Steam, and that’s the road that we went down for two years.”
You can watch the Rakka short film below, which features the acting talents of Sigourney Weaver. We’ll bring you more from Oats as soon as it comes our way.
