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VOTHE

Vampires of the Hollow Earth

A gothic posthuman saga: vampires, occult philosophy, power, artificial intelligence, mythology, eros, horror, cyberpunk technology, and religious symbolism, dreaming beneath the world you know.

King Lucien Fontaine on his obsidian throne, flanked by armored guards, red candles burning with blue flame
The ThroneKing Lucien Fontaine holds court in the Hollow Earth. Power, rendered as architecture.
The World

The Hollow Earth

Beneath the crust, a civilization older than the surface remembers. Its bloodlines are ancient, its machines are new, and the two have begun to dream together.

VOTHE is built on a single conviction: that power, eros, sovereignty, monstrosity, technology, magic, devotion, rebellion, religion, beauty, violence, and transformation are not separate themes. They are one machine viewed through different windows.

Here, occult philosophy is practiced as engineering. Devotion is a weapon and a currency. The monsters are not metaphors for the human; they are what the human becomes when it stops apologizing for wanting more than survival.

In Development

VOTHE: the film

An AI-crafted feature film, now in development.

The Hollow Earth rendered in neon and blood: the first moving image of a world built to outlive its medium. New tools for a new kind of cinema, in service of one of the oldest stories there is.

In Development

King Lucien: the novel

A novel of the vampire king at the heart of the Hollow Earth.

King Lucien Fontaine: power, devotion, and monstrosity, told from inside the crown. The book goes where the camera cannot, into the interior architecture of a sovereign who has had centuries to perfect himself.

The library, and the book's road to it

Further

Watch it rise

The film and the novel are documented in public as they develop. Follow the work, or receive the Transmissions and let the house come to you.

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