Enter the Void is a feature length experimental film that I saw in the cinema about a year ago. It had a profound effect on me due to showing me something utterly new and original, but it is not a film I would like to see again fully due to being a fairly painful watch. However I do feel it has been an influence on our film or at least an influence on me and how I wrote the soundtrack.
The film follows a young man who is a heavy drug user and is killed in a police raid in an underground club. The majority of the film takes place in first person and is, as the director puts it, "the story of someone who is stoned when he gets shot and who has an intonation of his own dream."
The film uses very interesting techniques that make the camera feel as if it is floating above much of the action. It is extremely dream-like and the visuals are often psychedelic (helped by the film's use of CG). These techniques were not much of an influence on me in coming up with the ideas for our film though the idea of travelling through someone's mind very much is.
However the most influential thing about this film was it's soundtrack. A mix of electronic pop and experimental music which is also highly electronic. I wanted to create a similarly menacing electronic soundscape for our film. One that relies on repetitive noises and ambient sound rather than beats or traditional incidental music. Harsh sounds are often used and mixed with the more ambient ones in Enter the Void and I attempted similar things in my soundtrack.
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