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Dark (2017)

Dark
The beginning is the end, and the end is the beginning.
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Tyger Tyger, burning bright, in the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye, could frame thy fearful symmetry?

English poet William Blake asked this question in 1794 and today we ask it still. In Dark, Netflix’s first original German-language series, co-creators Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese present an intricate mystery filled with curious characters, fractured memories, horrifying legacies, and more than a dash of the supernatural. The thriller aptly opens with a stunning sequence that takes our world and dismembers it, assembling the pieces into something eerie but beautiful. There’s a discomfort in the imagery, an awkward folding of bodies and forms. Doorways bend into themselves. Eyes blink impossibly inwards. With design by Lutz Lemke and music from Apparat featuring Soap & Skin, the title sequence is a disquieting scrapbook of moments and deeds. The work of title designer Danny Yount immediately comes to mind, particularly the opening to 2001’s Six Feet Under, as well as Yount’s symmetrical titles for Semi-Permanent Portland 2013.

In the forests of the night, in a small German town, the fearful symmetry of history keeps coming. It’s all there, in the title sequence – a fascinating kaleidoscope of life and intimacy and death and time.

  • Credits

Title and Graphic Design: ARRI Media VFX, Lutz Lemke

Music: “Goodbye” – Apparat feat. Soap&Skin

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Title sequence

  • Category

    TV
  • Styles

    2010s, live action, main title
Dark
  • Creators

    Baran bo Odar
    Jantje Friese
  • Year

    2017
  • Aspect

    2:1
  • Network

    Netflix
  • Country

    Germany
  • Language

    German
  • IMDb has full details

Article

  • Writer

    Lola Landekic
  • Published

    December 22, 2017

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