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The Long Guy
01 · The story
Inside this world.
After a mysterious drink stretches him skyward, a lanky man and his mechanical monkey cross a precarious mountaintop town in search of a moment of stillness.
- Creator
- AIM Films
- Runtime
- 2:17
- Picture
- 2520 × 1080
From the film.
Actual frames · Released cut
02 · Original concept direction
Before the cut.
The early visual intentions behind this world. The finished film may take the story somewhere different.
Anamorphic 35mm in warm teal-orange haze: Table Mountain, a solar-panel shantytown, braai smoke, and a pompous man folding like a deck chair every time the wind changes. The Long Guy follows his attempts to network at a rooftop gala he cannot physically fit into, while a robot baboon becomes his only honest friend. Golden hour never looked so unhinged.
The first premise
Cape Town, 2099. A finance bro takes a crypto growth-hack serum and stretches twelve feet tall with arms like spaghetti. He insists on calling it his best quarter ever.
Another world awaits.
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