Neighcromancy
Dana Lam
Using the dark power of necromancy a young championship-winning jockey resurrects her old racehorse to win one last race.
Artist Statement
I love to make people laugh and cringe, going with that, the film plays with the occult, dark humor, and comedy, as well as the dark side of human behavior. I focused on the power relationship between rider and animal and how it would play out if the animal was gifted supernatural power.
Process
I spent the whole summer of 2020 thinking about what I wanted to do for my last student film. I had a solid idea of what I wanted to do until I saw a funny screenshot of a Tumblr thread about horse necromancy. Before the semester started I scrambled to flesh out the film’s concept. I had a lot of fun exploring the color dynamics of the two characters. I knew that I wanted the horse and the girl to have complementary colors
Project Stills
Project Information
Credits
- Director: Dana Lam
- Music Composer: Leif Jack
- Sound Design: Dana Lam
- Voice Actors:
- Sarah-Jane Russell, (Jaylestial); – Pesto & Interviewer
- Benjamin Buckley – Sports Announcer
- Title Design: Alex Volchek
- Animation Assistants: Christine Lee, Rachel Liu
- Animation Clean-up & Color: Christine Lee, Angela Almero, Rachel Liu, Double Aye (Mohammed Abdullah)
- VFX Artist:s Noah Van Buhren, Dana Lam
- Sound Mix Engineer: Doug Paterson, Big World Sound
Special Thanks
- YJ Hur
- Noah Van Buhren
- Lorelei Pepi
- Leslie Bishko
- Animation techs, Gil Goletski & Chris Strickler
- Dana’s family
Original Concept
C.T. Kelly, for normal-horoscopes
