Trading Cards

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I think the visual style and feel of the film might be attractive to viewers, as an eclectic dark fantasy film with a lot of influences from various cultures and folk tales. Tarot cards are a significant part of the imagery used, and there was a lot of inspiration from Pamela Colman Smith's illustrations from the 1909 tarot deck conceptualised by A. E. Waite. I wanted to put my own spin on tarot and combine it in a new context, and so I think that could be intriguing to viewers. I also personally love media that combines elements of childhood with eerie, dark imagery, such as the trailer for Playground by Rodrigo Sousa, which people might find alluring. The film is also very self-referential and features extensions of myself at different points in time, it's a very personal film and a lot of it is based on my lived experience with OCD. I wanted to make a mental health film in a style and manner that I'd never seen before, and so the unusual approach might be an attractive point of Trading Cards.