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We are collaborating on a new Donnie Darko Immersive Experience with Cinaesthesia Production.
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A Glimpse into 2001 - The Donnie Darko Website
For those of you who were too young to experience it firsthand, this is also a little glimpse into the 2000s , the early days of immersive storytelling - back when things were a bit wild and experimental. Alexandra Jugović Co-founded the studio Hi-ReS! with Florian Schmitt and they created the original fim website for Donnie Darko in 2001.

The site was created for the Film Donnie Darko by first-time director Richard Kelly. The film plays over a 28 day period in a tangent (parallel universe) between 2 October and 30 October 1988.
The site was launched in numerous phases from early October. The final phase was launched on 26 October 2001, which was the release date of the film in the US.

What attracted us to Donnie Darko, was its narrative structure and the possibilities it offered for an online expansion. While the film plays over a period of 28 days, the site becomes the narrative's prologue and epilogue and reflects the film's puzzle-like structure in the way it is constructed and left open-ended...

Check out this link, where Rich (Dogwonder) has revived the intro from the original Flash website I created in 2001. While the full site and its functionality can't be completely rebuilt, a huge thanks to Rich for bringing this piece back to life!