SC 01 Featured project · 2026
Nightwater Opening Titles
The opening titles for the 2026 Nightwater Festival: six tunnels of light, one lineup, and a logo that arrives on the downbeat.
- Client
- Nightwater Festival
- Role
- Direction, 3D, and compositing
- Software
- Houdini, Redshift, After Effects
- Deliverables
- DCP, 16:9, 9:16, 1:1
The first names arrive on the tunnel walls.
The floor bends, and the music thins to one note.
Each turn of the coil carries one headliner.
Gold threads open into the shape of the festival mark.
The arc closes on the downbeat. House lights up.
Nightwater, from cold to warm
Color script · 7 beats · Sampled from the grade-
First ring
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Cold tunnel
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Trails
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The floor
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The coil
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Gold threads
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The arc
Each swatch sits under the frame it came from. The film warms up as the lineup gets bigger.
“Every streak of light in the film has a lamp behind it. That was the only rule, and it saved us weeks.”
From the styleframe to the final frame
Nightwater · Shot 01 · Week 2 and week 7The dot tunnel was the first styleframe the festival approved. Five weeks later, the dots had become streaks of light.
One frame, cut for every screen
Nightwater · The coil · Open gate 3:2Nightwater 2026, who made it.
Credits
Studio
- Direction and 3D
- Noa Calder
- Titles and compositing
- Noa Calder
Sound
- Music and sound design
- Iris Mallow
Festival
- Artistic director
- Hanne Ruusk
- Producers
- Tomas Elling
- Sade Okafor
Ninety seconds, eight weeks of light.