Seeing is believing
Creator Marie Enthoven and director Geoffrey Enthoven take DQ inside the making of Belgian mystery drama Invisible (Unseen) and reveal why nudity became an important part of the story. It’s a common quirk of television productions that episode one sometimes isn’t filmed until the end of the shooting schedule, so that by the time the starting point of the story is recorded, the actors have fully embodied their characters. Such was the case with Belgian drama Invisible. But just days before the end of the shoot in March this year, the coronavirus pandemic forced filming to pause, leaving the editors to begin post-production with half of the first episode still to record. Filming then restarted in June ahead of the show’s launch on streamer Proximus in September and then on RTBF last month. “Five days before the finish, we were told to go home. It was so unreal. It was fiction in real life,” says director Geoffrey Enthoven (Auwch_). “But it was really nice to see everybody again on set and we went for it 150%. Everything we did in those last four days was really incredible, better than it would have been originally when we were really exhausted.” Known internationally as Unseen, the eight-part series centres on the inhabitants of a fictional village called Creux, where a mysterious phenomenon suddenly turns people invisible, leading them to determine whether this new condition is a blessing or a curse. With the ‘Unseen’ soon deemed a threat, the authorities endeavour to control … Continue reading Seeing is believing
