Influences and reference material for Sanctuary (e.g. pre-vis, collage)
FILMS
Whale Rider - young girl misfit hero, proud angry jaw
Ned Kelly - burning aussie bush aesthetic
The Matrix - fluid movement through virtual space/mental agility
Matrix Reloaded - dangerous atheletic female
Minority Report/Matrix Reloaded - body language user interface
Starship Troopers - humourous Web user interface (uber flash text)
Heathers - classroom hierarchy (Blake is geek)
Beetlejuice - outsider teenage girl bedroom
Horses for Courses - fluid movement through painterly forest
Tron - minimalistic virtual world
ET - silent watchers (State technicians)
Enemy of the State - surveillance overload
Strange Days - 1st person/VR/look in mirror
Ghost in the Shell - wet-ware, cyberorganic elements
Nausicaa - relationship between teenage girl and nature
Wizard of Oz - get out and back home
ET/Close Encounters/Poltergeist - Spielberg suburbia, just add Hills' Hoists
Hulk - creative use of panelling, wipes, and transitions
Eternal Sunshine of a spotless mind - erasing virtual elements of a scene
Dark Crystal - bat as surveillance devices
TV
24 - panelling, pace
COMMERCIALS
NIKE basketball commercial - stick figure a litte like CD
MUSIC VIDEO
Star Guitar by The Chemical Brothers - rythmic visuals
*see http://www.director-file.com/gondry/Dxliv.html# and follow "mov" link on right
Royksopp - Remind Me - diagrams/maps of complexity
GAMES
Gitaroo Man - rhythm game interface
Half-Life 2 - troopers streetfighting
Rez - low rez fly-through The System, hacking
VIDEO ART
HeadCleaner - industrial banging for action sequence