Dontae Kerr

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Film and motion

Film is where my photographs start to move. I direct with my Gallery DCT Virtual Production Lab, where AI coding agents build each scene in Blender and render it to my direction.

A magazine open on a desk at dusk, showing a portrait of a person in a red mask, with a pair of glasses beside it and a city skyline through the window. 25.5 seconds

Short film, 2026

Blue Hour: One Eye

Nine of my portraits, printed in a magazine that turns its own pages on a desk at dusk.

Runtime
25.5 seconds, silent
Format
Vertical (9:16)
Photography and creative direction
Dontae Kerr
Virtual production and animation
Gallery DCT Virtual Production Lab

The photographs are mine. The room and the magazine are rendered.

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Nine photographs, nine pages

Frames from the film, in order. Each page of the magazine is one of my portraits.

  1. A person with copper hair and a red track jacket holds a red ball over one eye.
  2. A person with long pink hair holds a CD over one eye.
  3. A person with long dark hair and narrow dark glasses kneels against a pale pink backdrop.
  4. A person in a pale pink shirt lies on a grey floor, one hand at the face, printed with a white border.
  5. A person in an oversized grey shirt kneels and looks straight at the camera.
  6. A person in a green knitted dress kneels, one hand in their hair.
  7. In black and white, a person in a knitted balaclava, only the eyes showing.
  8. In black and white, a person in a black knitted hood with long white knitted ears, the face covered below the eyes.
  9. A person in a white hooded suit wears a glossy red mask, looking out through its eye holes.

From photograph to film

Black and white self-portrait in a knitted balaclava, only the eyes showing.
The photograph, as I edited it
The same self-portrait printed on the open magazine in the film.
Page seven of the film

A self-portrait from October 2022, on a Canon EOS Rebel T6. It is also in Creative portraits. The photographs were shot on my own cameras and edited by me; nothing in them was regenerated for the film. See the photography.

Who made what

  • Dontae KerrPhotography: the nine portraits, shot on my own cameras and edited in LightroomCanon EOS RP and Rebel T6, Lightroom
  • Dontae KerrCreative direction, and review of every version
  • Gallery DCT Virtual Production LabVirtual production: the room, the magazine, the camera, the light and the renderBlender with Cycles, run through AI coding agents
  • Unsplash; Poly Haven (CC0)City view through the window; wood, plaster, linen and glasses