April X

The Brief

A near-future cyberpunk thriller shot in Romania, following twins Bax and April through a fractured post-Soviet cityscape where the line between human and machine is quietly dissolving. When April disappears, Bax’s search pulls him deeper into a world of organ trading, drones and duplicated identities. The costumes needed to build a believable future from the ground up, using real locations and a limited budget to conjure a world that feels both imminent and unsettling.

The Approach

The visual world of April X was built on a palette of cyan and red, a stop-and-go colour language that ran through the cinematography and informed the wardrobe throughout. Costumes were designed to sit at the intersection of the contemporary and the near-future: familiar enough to feel real, distorted just enough to signal another time. The twins shared a visual DNA in their looks, with subtle distinctions that reflected their different relationships to the world around them. Filming in Romania’s industrial and urban environments gave the costumes a lived-in grit to work against, grounding the film’s more speculative ideas in something tangible and worn.