The cultists'
home interior was built for obvious reasons, and was linked to an existing
house way out in the desert.
The interior was designed to look like the gutted remnants of a house,
with floors ripped out to create larger spaces.
The walls are a canvas for poetry and hallucinatory imagery, and the dressing
a random assortment of findings.
While there was not much sense of order to the space, it was redressed,
as it appears in the film in two different time periods.
In
the photos above we see the cultists sinking into the floor as Nix produces
a rain storm inside the room. The other photo being the resulting effect
of the the dried room after the rain. The room was built up on a platform
to accommodate the sinking cast, who slipped through foam inserts to maintain
the surface level of the mud. Each chamber they slipped into was its own
sealed box to prevent the stage flooding. The rain heads in the ceiling
were replaced in post production by a fake sky. The room was then redressed
with a jig-saw puzzle of preformed tiles to look like a dried lake bed,
and steam was passed through the cracks to help the transition. The hole
Nix creates was a combination of a separate set with the collapsing pieces,
and a matching hole on the main set above.
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