Where The City Can't See trailer: The film shot using laser scanners

A surreal, visually bold movie set in futuristic Detroit

A bold new sci-fi movie has been produced, billed as 'the world's first narrative fiction film shot entirely with laser scanners'.

Laser scanning is the controlled steering of laser beams followed by a distance measurement at every pointing direction, allowing for the rapid capture of the shape of objects, buildings and landscapes. It is usually employed for practical, architectural purposes, but director Liam Young found that it also presents interesting cinematic opportunities.

Where The City Can't See is set in a Chinese owned and controlled Detroit Economic Zone (DEZ), and we see the futuristic city through the eyes of the robots that manage it.

Here's the official synopsis:

'Exploring the subcultures that emerge from these new technologies the film follows a group of young car factory workers across a single night, as they drift through the smart city point clouds in a driverless taxi, searching for a place they know exists but that the map doesn’t show. They are part of an underground community that work on the production lines by day but at night, adorn themselves in machine vision camouflage and the tribal masks of anti-facial recognition to enact their escapist fantasies in the hidden spaces of the city. They hack the city and journey through a network of stealth buildings, ruinous landscapes, ghost architectures, anomalies, glitches and sprites, searching for the wilds beyond the machine. We have always found the eccentric and imaginary in the spaces the city can’t see.'

Where The City Can't See premieres at The Invisible City on 12 November.