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To promote the 18th annual Newport Beach Film Festival, RPA floats an elusive campaign awash in dark, brooding imagery.
“Go Deeper,” a short film directed by Jed Hathaway, combines live-action elements with stop-motion techniques to follow a bottled message on a strange journey through the magical, murky depths.
Our story opens and closes on a man in a tiny boat, apparently lost at sea, who sets the story in motion by scribbling something on a scrap of paper, popping it into a bottle, and tossing it overboard.
A finely detailed encounter with a Titanic-style shipwreck (and lots of rad skeletons) follows, before the bottle, many years later, returns to its point of origin and the message is revealed:
Well, that was certainly … deep.
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