Filmmaker Statement

We’re Daphna and Terry from Dante or Die, and we co-wrote and directed the experience. So, rewind to Christmas 2019. Terry’s in a bookies in the South West of Ireland: “I haven’t been in a betting shop for years but as I’m looking around, I start to imagine a show happening around me. They’re such interesting spaces with so many moments of drama taking place in them. And they’re popping up left, right and centre on our high streets, at a time when the rest of the high street is dying. I immediately wanted to make a new production in a betting shop.” So we got to work and received seed funding from Farnham Maltings to do some research & development. Then Covid shut everything down, and suddenly an intimate production in a betting shop seemed quite impossible in the near future.  When we started reading articles about rising levels of online gambling, we started to consider creating some sort of digital production, using the online world of a slot machine game as the ‘site’.