Vic Vaughan

Second Childhood (2018)
Film Director

S-HER (2017)
Film (Drama and Musical) Writer Constructed as a cyclical dreamscape and inspired by Escher's exploration of repetitive space, S-HER is a cinematic Möbius strip of a perpetual and inescapable nightmare. Set inside the crumbling walls of a Medieval French Château, the female protagonist is seen running up a seemingly endless spiral of stairs, in a futile bid to escape HER previous self in a never/an ever-changing confusion of identity. As the sequence continues, the emphasis on circularity results in an unnerving repetition, establishing an atmosphere of heightened paranoia and uncertainty. Inspired by the repetitive structure of a Chopin Prelude, the film employs a Schenkerian reading of harmonic structure for the visual placement of pivotal narrative moments. The musical score, entirely manipulated to create a perfect Golden Section in its third and final segment, exploits the natural 'compensating rubato' within musical performance, in which any acceleration is later accounted for when the music slows down again. ...

The Silent Run Budget: $10M - $30M | Action ⋄ Science Fiction A hostile agent infiltrates a popular computer game to spread a debilitating virus around the world and a fledgling scientist needs to get the truth out before she is taken out.

Out of Nowhere Budget: $10M - $30M | Science Fiction If your geologist husband came back from a field trip to Africa, you’d expect him to bring home a couple of rocks and a souvenir, not a meteorite and a deadly virus. And let’s say you’re a molecular biologist, you’d expect that virus to be killing him, not killing his cancer, right? And, you’d expect someone — anyone — to believe you.

Notes of Endurance Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama In 1940s Britain an accomplished pianist falls in love with a man who may just be her worst nightmare.