Meridian (2016)
A deserted cliff. Lightning appearing out of nowhere. A mysterious lady all dressed in white. Netflix’s latest original program, “Meridian,” is spooky, confusing, and only 12 minutes long. That’s because although “Meridian” is available on the streaming service worldwide, it was made not for Netflix’s 83 million subscribers, but for algorithms and their programmers. Director Curtis Clark likely had artistic reasons for adding the film’s strange effects. But those elements are primarily there because they tend to trip up video codecs, or software that compresses and decompresses digital video, and other elements of the streaming pipeline.
Director: Curtis Clark
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Reid Scott as Jake |
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Elyse Levesque as Mysterious Woman |
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Dakota Bailey as Dispatch (voice) |
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Joseph Buttler as Mannequin |
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Kevin Kilner as Mac |
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Michael Dean Russell Jr as Mannequin |
| Directing | Curtis Clark | Director |
| Writing | Curtis Clark | Writer |
| Writing | James Harmon | Writer |
| Production | Malcolm Duncan | Producer |
| Production | Chris Fetner | Executive Producer |
| Production | Andrea Sastoque | Line Producer |
| Production | Mike Whipple | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Alex Kovacs | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Markus Förderer | Director of Photography |
| Editing | David Sconyers | Editor |
| Production | Muffett Brinkman | Casting |
| Art | Mari Lappalainen | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Margarita Delgado | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Maggie Maceri | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Gina Nicole Maceri | Makeup Artist |
