Requiem for a Dream website

The site was designed to be an extension of the film on the web and can be enjoyed before, after or independently of the film. The visitor is a character in the story, gradually losing control as they journey through the site. As the film's main leitmotif is addiction and decay, the site became in itself a metaphor for it, as it decays the further you progress in the narrative. The experience is deliberately disorientating and ultimately ends in rejection.
We wanted to create a site that rots and falls apart the further you progress, until it finally kicks you out.
It was the first time we experimented with interactive non-linear narrative, something that has since become a central element in our work, as you had to find your way through the lead characters' crossing narrative strains.
As the film moves from Summer through Fall to Winter, so does the site, accompanied by a colour change from white to grey to black.