Forward Festival
Main Titles 2021
An exploration of the virtualisation and digitisation of our lives
We were invited to create the invitation for the Forward Festival and produce the main title film for this year’s events. Titled “Threshold,” our film responds to the festival’s exploration of the virtualisation and digitisation of our lives. It focuses on the boundary between the real and the virtual, highlighting how our experiences blend when we answer video calls or enter gaming environments. In these moments, we encounter different spaces and virtual representations of people we know, blurring the line between reality and the virtual world.
Typography played a hero role in this sequence. We worked through a number of fonts and type systems to find the right tone and technical makeup to allow us to test and play out our mechanisms. Co-Type’s Coanda font had the right mix of digital and contemporary finesse as a face, along with perfect horizontal, vertical and diagonal strokes. This allowed us to break it down into a modular system, bringing individual elements together at pace to create the whole.
QUOTE Othmar Handl, Founder, Forward Festival
Breathtaking! Seeing it at the festival for the first time was my personal highlight. It’s been a pleasure working with you.
This project wasn’t approached as a classic narrative piece — it was all about R&D. Testing and learning from each of our processes, we were able to take our material and bring the sequence together, as one. Check some of the many experiments and tests that went into the film below.
