That’s not a pat on my back, it’s a testament to the unbelievably friendly engineering of Resolve. Something in the Dirt is essentially an omnibus film of all our wildest ideas of a ‘haunting’ that we dug up from that graveyard.”Īlthough Moorhead doesn’t identify himself as a colourist, he received formal colour training early in his career, which gave him the confidence to do the colour grading on this film: “I brushed up on DaVinci Resolve in about a week of watching and trying online tutorials, and I felt confident with the program as I dove in.

“They would ask us to give our strangest, wildest, most left of center ideas, which in the end was usually too left of center for them.

“For years we have been asked to pitch on maybe a dozen different haunted house franchises,” said Moorhead. Directed by and starring Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson, the film is a testament to Moorhead and Benson’s friendship, as well as their passion for singular and unusual narratives.īenson and Moorhead are no strangers to film directing, having both served in that role on a wide variety of projects, including episodes of both Moon Knight (Disney) and Archive 81 (Netflix). Thus, a deeper hole opens up, a more entangled labyrinth, and their friendship falters as they discover the dangers that these phenomena, the city and themselves bring. Both, after witnessing supernatural occurrences in their Los Angeles flat, realise that documenting paranormal events could bring fame and fortune to their wasted lives. Something in the Dirt tells the story of two neighbours, John and Levi.

The unique film ‘Something in the Dirt’, graded with DaVinci Resolve Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve Studio software was used to grade the independent feature film Something in the Dirt, which won the NEXT Innovation Award at Sundance 2022.

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