The site was created for the Film Donnie Darko by first-time director Richard Kelly. The film plays over a 28 day period in a tangent (parallel universe) between 2 October and 30 October 1988.
The site was launched in numerous phases from early October.
The final phase was launched on 26 October 2001, which was the release date of the film in the US.
What attracted us to Donnie Darko, was its narrative structure and the possibilities it offered for an online expansion. While the film plays over a period of 28 days, the site becomes the narrative's prologue and epilogue and reflects the film's puzzle-like structure in the way it is constructed and left open-ended...
Take a look at
donniedarkowebsite.com, where Rich (Dogwonder) has revived the intro from the original Flash site we built in 2001. The full experience can’t be completely reconstructed, but a huge thank you to Rich for bringing this fragment back from the tangent universe.