Work / 2024–2025 / Elevator

Trailer · 0:56 · a flat 16:9 cut of the stereo 180° film

Student production · Apple Immersive Video · Stereo 180°

Elevator

When two clubbers follow a mysterious invitation to an underground party, their evening descends into a nightmare.

Director
LILLETH
Cinematography
Rocky Huang
Producers
Akaash Tumuluri & Nathan Fairchild

Written and directed by LILLETH and shot on location by cinematographer Rocky Huang, Elevator is the largest Ganek production to date, with a cast and crew of more than 30.

It was made for Apple Vision Pro as Apple Immersive Video: a stereo 180° live-action film that puts the viewer inside the elevator and the party with the characters.

Season
2024–2025
Format
Apple Immersive Video · stereo 180°
Camera
Canon EOS R5 C with the RF 5.2 mm dual-fisheye lens
Shown at
Ganek Immersive Showcase 2025
Poster for Elevator: two silhouettes under a red light grid

On set · February 2025

Behind the scenes

The underground-party set: a glowing square tunnel in violet light
A crew member in a headset watches the stereo fisheye feed on a monitor
The director talks through a shot with a crew member
Cast and crew gather around the stereo monitor between takes
The monitor shows both fisheye eyes of a take in the elevator
Crew members check playback on the on-set monitor

Cast & crew

Full credits

Written & directed by
LILLETH
Cinematography
Rocky Huang
Produced by
Akaash Tumuluri & Nathan Fairchild
Production design
Isabel Ivey
Costume design
Tiger George
Hair & make-up
Tyler O’Hal
Edited by
Jean Hsi
Music
Kayla McIntyre
Sound design
Kevin Remy
First assistant director
Ben Silva
Studio director
Jordan Halsey
Presented by
The Ganek Immersive Studio

Cast

Kei Austin and Maleah Goldberg, with Annalise Gehling, Sierra Fujite, Siena Wand, Audrey Valcourt, Kasper Washington, Shivani Desai, Bela Chauhan and Ale Rend.

From the trailer

Stills

A woman in silhouette faces a glowing doorway in the fog
Dancers embrace in red haze at the underground party
A woman in a white top inside a steel elevator car
Figures wait in a red-lit room under a ceiling grid