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Radium Girls
feature film
production design  

Director Ginny Mohler & Lydia Dean Pilcher
produced by
Cine Mosaic, Lily Tomlin & Jane Wagner
DP Mathieu Plainfossé

Tribeca Film Festival, Netflix
 
1925, New Jersey. Teenage sisters, Bessie and Jo, dream of faraway places as they paint glow-in-the-dark watch dials at the American Radium Factory. When Jo develops a life-threatening disease, Bessie is propelled into a radical coming-of-age struggle as she stands up to the corporation & forces them to admit that they knowingly allowed the women to work with toxic radium. 
I was fortunate to reunite with the talented art department from King Jack to build the feminist ghost world of Radium Girls. The look of the film moves beyond the traditional dusty period piece to feel contemporary, our color palette often veers into the toxic and surreal. It was a great challenge designing this ambitious independent feature.

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Post Star
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living room
kitchen set
1920s bathroom
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American Radium propoganda poster
set dec inspection closet
American Radium fabricated sign
dr office built set
American radium factory set
picture car
American Radium wall signage
Cavallo house transormation
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