Filmmaker Ramsey Fendall, co-director of the feature film Lucid, invites you into a one-hour deep dive exploring the film’s design philosophy and production process. Created with co-director Deanna Milligan, Lucid emerged from a small team to craft a surreal, music-driven arthouse horror rooted in Victoria’s 1990s underground art scene. The film has screened at festivals worldwide and was awarded best first Canadian feature at the Victoria Film Festival.

In this talk, Fendall will share how Lucid was conceived not just as a film, but as a living art object shaped by DIY exhibition culture and analog experimentation. He’ll discuss transforming Victoria locations into heightened psychological spaces, building tactile handmade sets that blurred the line between installation art and cinema, and the creative decision to shoot on Super 8, 16mm, and 35mm film to achieve the story’s rich, collage-like textures.

You’ll gain insight into the integration of practical effects and live music recordings, and how sound and image were designed together from the start. This is a candid look  at collaborative authorship, low-budget ingenuity, and the power of hands-on design in independent filmmaking.

Explore the other sessions happening at Pacific Design Academy throughout the day.