The Mill - Inside the VFX of The Golden Age | Reinventing Archive Footage for Cinema

Описание: How do you transform authentic archival footage into a seamless work of fiction?

Selected for Cannes Classics, The Golden Age (L'Âge d'Or) challenged conventional visual effects by blending documentary archives with newly filmed performances, allowing its characters to exist naturally within real moments from history.

In this interview, director Bérenger Thouin and Hugues Namur, VFX Supervisor at The Mill (ex-MPC Paris), discuss the creative collaboration that began long before production. Together, they reveal how visual effects became part of the film's storytelling language, combining traditional compositing, face replacement techniques, deep learning workflows and meticulous practical filmmaking to create an immersive cinematic experience.

Discover how archival footage was transformed into living cinema through months of creative experimentation, precise performances by Souheila Yacoub, and innovative visual effects designed to make audiences forget where documentary ends and fiction begins.

🎬 The Golden Age (L'Âge d'Or)
Selected for Cannes Classics

Featuring:
• Bérenger Thouin, Director
• Hugues Namur, VFX Supervisor, The Mill

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