FIELD NOTES

Field Notes: A Closer Look at the Work

Creating the Creator

Cooper’s study is the one and only location for the film. We decided on a 24’ by 24’ room, with the 20’ by 20’ cage built just inside it. Every side of the set needed to be a ‘fly-away wall’, completely being removed at one point or another to allow camera access to all available angles.

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Katie C Sunderalingam
Designing for Discomfort

The reference imagery was sleek and minimal, but the chosen location was a warm, lived-in family home. Translating the vision meant carefully stripping back every layer of personality, removing anything that spoke to comfort, love, or family life, until the space felt intentionally hollow -  the kind of transition the characters themselves and their home would have been through.

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Katie C Sunderalingam