City of Echoes

In 2022, while serving as Head of Film and Television department at the Victorian College of the Arts, City of Echoes (O’Keefe and Rule 2024) co-writer and director, Andrew O’Keefe, spearheaded the integration of Virtual Production into the VCA’s curriculum–specifically a focus on In-Camera Visual Effects (ICVFX) workflows using LED Volumes. At the beginning of the second year of this four-year journey, inspired by the minimalist urban landscape paintings of Jeffrey Smart OA, Andrew conceived the initial idea for the short film with an ICVFX workflow in mind.