Thomas Harrington Rawle directs Daisy Maybe’s Box With God
Studio Private's Rawle, directs a hybrid VFX film blending live action and CGI to explore alien order within the everyday.
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For Box With God, the latest single from genre-defying artist and producer Daisy Maybe, multimedia artist Thomas Harrington Rawle, constructs a disquieting visual world where control is relinquished and identity dissolves.
Working from a minimal environment, Rawle builds a system rather than a narrative, one in which bodies become vessels, faces are stripped away, and individuals are reorganised by an unseen force. What begins as a recognisable human space gradually mutates into something far more alien and collective.
Developed in close collaboration with producer Esme Creed Miles, the film draws on Rawle’s interest in rituals embedded within the everyday, and in the idea of external forces quietly shaping behaviour. Echoes of Invasion of the Body Snatchers emerge in the transformation of the cast, as human forms are subtly reconfigured into a unified, otherworldly entity.
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- VFX Thomas Harrington-Rawle
- VFX Cathal McKeon
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Credits
powered by- Director Thomas Harrington-Rawle
- VFX Dobermann LTD
- Producer Esme Creed Miles
- DP Joseph Dunn
- VFX Thomas Harrington-Rawle
- VFX Cathal McKeon
The project was shot in a traditional way with a live cast and a single location, before being intricately reconstructed in post through a hybrid VFX pipeline led by Rawle and collaborator Cathal James McKeon. Combining CGI and compositing, the footage is fragmented and reassembled into shifting, unstable compositions such as moving collages that extend the physical space into something far more expansive and psychologically charged.
Rawle treats creative technology as a mechanism for distortion with this film, bending the familiar into something where the boundary between human and constructed begins to collapse.
With Box With God, Rawle continues to explore the tension between control and surrender, delivering a film that sits between music video, installation and speculative fiction, a work less concerned with storytelling than with building a system the viewer is drawn into.
