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What If You Could Escape Your Daily Routine?

I met Steven Briend at the Disposable Film Festival last year. I liked his papercraft stop motion “magic” short PROTEIGON. I just got to see his new short SHUNPO which is a nice bit of dance on film with another tad of cinema magic thrown in with excellent results. Check it out:


SHUNPO by stevenbriand

What if we could escape our daily routine for a moment ? A Step, just one, that could move us miles away from here, in a second; a flash step. A Shunpo.
Shunpo was shot in 6 days in 13 different locations in Paris plus one in Turkey at “Tuz Göllü” salt lake.
The camera used was a Canon 5D Mark III with 16-35 L, 24-70L and 70-200L lenses.

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