Above All Species

Above all species

Ystad Studios, Sweden
Summer 2014

Directed by
Jens Klevje, Fabian Svensson

Script
Gustaf Heden

Cast
Iggy Malmborg: Johan
Lars-Erik Berenett: Hans
Reine Brynolfsson: Erik
Marika Lagercrantz: Katarina
Stina Ekblad: Mamma

Video Artwork
Isac Stridsman
Jens Klevje
Fabian Svensson

When old tech meets new possibilities.

Above all species ( 2015 ) is a film about 4 unfortnate people who drift away on a floe where only one return and the others perish. Rather than shoot on location filmmakers Jens Klevje & Fabian Svensson went for a 21st century version of front projection for all backgrounds in the film.

All backgrounds were projected onto a huge
( 28x5m ) screen in the studio. Classic front projection technology made available in real time due to modern projectors and realtime playback software.

This allowed for realtime adjustment of everything from height of horizon to layering different coast lines, waters, skies and adjusting everything from speed to white balance in every individual shot.