Nearly two months after bringing us her first YouTube short film, Anna Akana has introduced us to Afflicted Inc. The actress/director/vlogger/generally talented person has released her second short, which tackles the subject of bulimia. Afflicted Inc. takes place in a dark room where a group of "illnesses" meet to discuss how they can best afflict young women. The central character is the avatar of bulimia, who Akana portrays while made up to look like a Dia de los Muertos skeleton. Afflicted Inc. has plenty in common with Hallucination, Akana's first short. In addition to taking on specific mental illnesses as their subject, they both feature a pair of female leads and generally moody cinematography courtesy of online video vet Lan Bui (who also Dp'd Hallucination). If these similarities point to Akana's style, she's getting better at what she does. When compared to Hallucination, Afflicted Inc. is more evocative,...
- 3/25/2014
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
After Anna Akana and Ray William Johnson uploaded all five acts of their sci-fi, teenage drama Riley Rewind to Facebook and YouTube under the banner of their Runaway Planet studio, Akana quickly moved onto a new project. The burgeoning entertainer is releasing 12 short films in 2014, so that she may hone her writing and directing skills and essentially “learn by doing.” The first of Akana’s shorts to hit the internet was Hallucination, a two-minutes-and-fifty-six departure from her regularly scheduled, vlog-style videos and a look look at a mental health patient who battles a figment of the imagination. More shorts are shot and scheduled for release in the very near future, but in the meantime Akana took to her camera to talk about the short filmmaking process in the kind of detail creators of all kinds tend to shy away from. In addition to telling viewers the importance of a fantastic,...
- 3/10/2014
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
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