The Doll Chronicles – Franco Esteve's The Doll Chronicles Short Film Series https://thedollchronicles.com/dsite Short Film Series about a Doll on the Edge of Reality Mon, 17 Jun 2024 13:17:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://thedollchronicles.com/dsite/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-Apocalypse_Official_Poster_1-32x32.jpg The Doll Chronicles – Franco Esteve's The Doll Chronicles Short Film Series https://thedollchronicles.com/dsite 32 32 194285030 Nearly 3 years on Spotify’s Editorial Playlist! (Updated) https://thedollchronicles.com/dsite/2024/06/17/5th-week-on-spotifys-editorial-playlist/ Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:39:00 +0000 https://thedollchronicles.com/dsite/?p=6771 The Apocalypse, The Doll Chronicles soundtrack’s ambient song, “The Space Between,” selected for Spotify’s Ambient Film Scores editorial playlist (https://spoti.fi/3rHcsXV – no longer available), was on it for the editorial playlist’s entire lifespan of nearly 3 years (a bit over 150 weeks). Wow! The music that drives the film Apocalypse, The Doll Chronicles was in great company there and continues in great company on other Ambient Film Scores playlists (like someone’s copy of the original here), or you can listen to it on Franco Esteve’s profile and catalog here. Enjoy the song and don’t forget to also check out the full album right there on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/4WhWjbx6sPbnmTCjCZ0Qmv) or in your favorite streaming service. While you’re there, remember to listen, like and follow. 🙂 Not on Spotify? If you prefer another service or aren’t on any, here are some useful links to the album on some of the most popular:

Thank you everyone! Thank you Spotify for the past 3 years of that playlist, introducing so many people to my music! Enjoy the song everyone. 🙂 Cheers. 

Find out more about the album here.  

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]]> 6771 1 MILLION STREAMS FOR THE APOCALYPSE, THE DOLL CHRONICLES SOUNDTRACK ON SPOTIFY! https://thedollchronicles.com/dsite/2023/04/30/1-million-streams-for-the-apocalypse-the-doll-chronicles-soundtrack-on-spotify/ Sun, 30 Apr 2023 06:30:00 +0000 https://thedollchronicles.com/dsite/?p=7062

Thank you Spotify listeners for the million streams for the album on the streaming service and all listeners of my music for continuing to enjoy and support my music. Keep listening and enjoying it!

Franco Esteve

Here’s the album link for Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4WhWjbx6sPbnmTCjCZ0Qmv
Don’t forget to like, follow and all the rest of it.

Not on Spotify yet or use a different service? Here are some links to the album on some of the most popular services:

Thank you everyone! Thank you Spotify! Enjoy the album. 🙂 Cheers.

Find out more about the album here. 

Patrons got to sample the film and the music before anyone else. Become a patron now: https://patreon.com/francoesteve

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]]> 7062 Apocalypse, The Doll Chronicles a great success! https://thedollchronicles.com/dsite/2021/12/30/apocalypse-the-doll-chronicles-a-great-success/ Thu, 30 Dec 2021 19:56:01 +0000 https://thedollchronicles.com/dsite/?p=6879 With awards and accolades from film festivals around the world, and thousands of views post-release, we’d like to thank everyone for a great 2021. Everything Apocalypse, The Doll Chronicles has been a great success. In spite of all the setbacks to get here, y’all’s ongoing support has made it all possible. Thank you! Here’s to a great 2022 and beyond! ? Happy New Year!

Haven’t watched Apocalypse yet? Go here: https://youtu.be/ButGdAzOowY

Apocalypse, The Doll Chronicles (2021)

Haven’t heard the Apocalypse soundtrack with the song selected by Spotify editors for their Ambient Film Scores playlist? Go here: https://www.francoesteve.com/music/apocalypse-the-doll-chronicles-original-soundtrack/

Apocalypse: The Doll Chronicles (Original Soundtrack) on Spotify. Follow the link above for other services.

Support everything The Doll Chronicles and beyond by becoming a Franco Esteve patron here: https://patreon.com/francoesteve

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]]> 6879 Watch the award-winning, experimental short film, Apocalypse, The Doll Chronicles! Available Now on YouTube! https://thedollchronicles.com/dsite/2021/12/10/watch-the-award-winning-experimental-short-film-apocalypse-the-doll-chronicles-available-now-on-youtube/ Fri, 10 Dec 2021 19:43:08 +0000 https://thedollchronicles.com/dsite/?p=6866 It’s finally available! Watch and experience the award-winning, experimental short film, Apocalypse, The Doll Chronicles now on YouTube here. The film has successfully completed its main festival run, accumulating awards and accolades along the way both for its presentation, concept, and soundtrack, and it’s out now for everyone to enjoy. Check it out:

NOTE: Though the film is experimental in nature and mostly occurs across a post-apocalyptic landscape, it deals with a serious subject matter, childhood trauma, and has therefore been age-restricted on YouTube and can only be watched there.

Film Description

Apocalypse, The Doll Chronicles (2021 Short Film)

Apocalypse, the latest award-winning entry in The Doll Chronicles series of independent short films about Doll, a beauty that stands on the edge of reality, is the fourth in the series and Doll faces a darkness from her past as she explores what seems like a desolate post-apocalyptic world. More info about the film below…

  • Duration: 8:13
  • Film: Apocalypse, The Doll Chronicles (4)
  • Created by: Franco Esteve

The Doll Chronicles Series Website: https://www.thedolllchronicles.com
Franco Esteve’s Website: https://francoesteve.com

About the film

Completed and released in 2021, Apocalypse, The Doll Chronicles is the film that never was. The footage was originally shot in 2015-2016 and it was meant as an overly ambitious entry into The Doll Chronicles series, but sadly most of the footage was lost to dead hard drives. From footage found and restored in old drives found years later, Franco Esteve’s great Doll Chronicles frustration, Apocalypse was rebuilt, refocused, and finished as a thought, a conceptual music driven, experimental film more in line with The Doll Chronicles concept, and yet, maintaining some of the original dialog and ideas.

The film follows Doll, a woman on the edge of reality, as she explores what looks like a desolate, post-apocalyptic landscape. Something or someone appears to be chasing her, and as we follow her travels, the darkness becomes clearer and we learn what it’s all about. The final film can be interpreted a number of ways, but the social awareness focus is still on trauma, particularly childhood trauma and abuse.

The film features new actors Charlotte March, Danny Brooks, and Llucia Pizà, and sees the return of Consequence actors, Marisa Reyes Durán and Bernat Pizà Galmes, with another cameo by executive producer, Emma Saura Woods in a party scene with other extras.

The film is currently in the film festival circuit, having already received Best Experimental Film at EdiPlay International Film Festival in France, Best Short in the Medusa Film Festival, and other accolades for both the film and the soundtrack, as well as receiving positive reviews for its experimental presentation, concept, music, and for its innovative reconstruction of footage lost into something meaningful.

Credits:

Produced, Written, and Directed by Franco Esteve (https://francoesteve.com)
Executive producers: Emma Saura Woods & Franco Esteve
Starring: Charlotte March
Co-Starring: Danny Brooks, Bernat Pizà Galmés, Marisa Reyes Durán and introducing Llucía Pizà

Music: Written and Performed by Franco Esteve
Copyright©2021 Franco Esteve. All rights reserved.

Soundtrack album available on most, popular music download stores and streaming services. Here are some links to some of them:

No dolls were injured during the making of this film.
This film is a work of fiction. Any similarities to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Careful crossing the wasteland of your mind.

Shot on location in London, UK, and Mallorca, Spain.
Copyright©2021 Franco Esteve. All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication or use whole or in part is strictly prohibited and punishable by law.

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]]> 6866 Review: She Wolf Music Magazine Reviews Apocalypse Soundtrack (in German) https://thedollchronicles.com/dsite/2021/09/13/review-she-wolf-music-magazine-reviews-apocalypse-soundtrack-in-german/ Mon, 13 Sep 2021 01:37:00 +0000 https://thedollchronicles.com/dsite/?p=6819

New Review! German music magazine, She Wolf, has reviewed the Apocalypse: The Doll Chronicles Soundtrack!You can read it (in German) here:
https://shewolf.eu/franco-esteve-mit-inspirierendem-soundtrack-zu-seinem-film-apocalypse-the-doll-chronicles-audio-trailer-soundtrack-orchestral/

“8 out of 10: Interesting soundtrack to an interesting film… Franco Esteve presents a fantastic sound spectacle on the soundtrack… an interesting musical companion, behind which there is not only a fantastic composer, but also an artist who is fantastic with different timbres , acoustic paintings come to life… Franco Esteve proves to be a sound tinkererwho has the right feel for appealing musical accompaniments”

– She Wolf, German Music Magazine, September 2021 (in German)

Thank you Philipp Gottfried and She Wolf for the review! I’m happy y’all enjoyed it enough to give it an 8 out of 10! Cheers! ?

Haven’t heard the album yet? Go listen to it in your favorite streaming service or get it on Bandcamp or Gumroad (links below). While you’re there, remember to listen, like and follow. ?

Here are some useful links to the album on some of the most popular services:

Thank you everyone! Enjoy the review and the music! 🙂 Cheers. 

Find out more about the album on the official page here.  

Patrons got to sample the film and the music before anyone else. Become a patron now: https://patreon.com/francoesteve

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]]> 6819 Review: Dancing About Architecture Reviews Apocalypse Soundtrack https://thedollchronicles.com/dsite/2021/08/14/review-dancing-about-architecture-reviews-apocalypse-soundtrack/ Sat, 14 Aug 2021 13:11:14 +0000 https://thedollchronicles.com/dsite/?p=6779 Dave Franklin of Dancing About Architecture has written a wonderfully detailed review of Apocalypse: The Doll Chronicles (Original Soundtrack), which you can read using the image link above or here: https://dancing-about-architecture.com/apocalypse-the-doll-chronicles-original-soundtrack-franco-esteve-reviewed-by-dave-franklin/

Highlights:

About the soundtrack: “suitably dark and delicious, epic and expansive, perfect to drive a film about a woman living on the edge of reality and being chased across a desolate and dystopian landscape by the darkness and trauma of her own past.“

About the bonus tracks: “Perhaps because the music in these newly restored concepts is less directly tied to the final storyline, they reveal themselves to be more adventurous and experimental… it is here that the music seems broader in its scope, heightened in its anticipation, deeper, darker, more decayed, more…well, just more!“

Dancing About Architecture, August 2021

Thank you Dave Franklin and Dancing About Architecture. I’m very happy y’all enjoyed it. 🙂

Haven’t heard the album yet? Go here:

Remember to like, follow, and the rest of it. Thank you everyone!

Find out more about the album here.

Patrons got to sample the film and the music before anyone else. Become a patron now: https://patreon.com/francoesteve

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]]> 6779 Review: Jamsphere Music Magazine Reviews Apocalypse Soundtrack https://thedollchronicles.com/dsite/2021/08/14/review-jamsphere-music-magazine-reviews-apocalypse-soundtrack/ Sat, 14 Aug 2021 13:04:06 +0000 https://thedollchronicles.com/dsite/?p=6774 The Jamsphere Music Magazine review of Apocalypse: The Doll Chronicles (Original Soundtrack) is out! Read it here: https://jamsphere.com/reviews/franco-esteve-apocalypse-the-doll-chronicles-original-soundtrack-complex-moods-distilled-into-moments-of-perfection

“the haunting melodies and atmospheres will hold your attention scrupulously as it gradually magnifies in darkness and urgency… Hauntingly atmospheric and staggering in its scope, “Apocalypse: The Doll Chronicles (Original Soundtrack)” is here to assert itself as deeply compelling evidence for the gargantuan artistic value of Franco Esteve’s scoring work.”

Jamsphere Music Magazine Review, August 2021

Thank you Jamsphere! Wow! ? I’m elated that y’all enjoyed it so much.

Haven’t heard the album yet? Go here:

Remember to like, follow, and the rest of it. Thank you everyone! 

Find out more about the album here. 

Patrons got to sample the film and the music before anyone else. Become a patron now: https://patreon.com/francoesteve

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]]> 6774 Now Available! Apocalypse: The Doll Chronicles (Original Soundtrack) https://thedollchronicles.com/dsite/2021/07/23/now-available-apocalypse-the-doll-chronicles-original-soundtrack/ Fri, 23 Jul 2021 16:02:53 +0000 https://thedollchronicles.com/dsite/?p=6728 Apocalypse: The Doll Chronicles (Original Soundtrack) is Available NOW! The soundtrack to the award-winning short film is now available on most, popular streaming services and online download stores. Here are some links where you can listen to it or get it:

Your favorite store or service not listed above? The album is most likely available on it, so be sure to search for it. Thanks.

“Franco Esteve has delivered on the titles promise in the aptly titled track, Apocalypse. Unsettling and thought provoking, Apocalypse is an exploration in dissonance and contrast that weaves and twirls as it moves towards its sudden conclusion. A piece worthy of our current uncertain times.”

– Nagamag Music Magazine Review, July 2021

Haven’t watched the film?

Franco Esteve’s DaVinci and above patrons on Patreon can preview the film right now, and all patrons get exclusive previews (they preview the music too), so become a patron today: https://patreon.com/FrancoEsteve

You can also have a couple of options for a private screening online. Check them out here.Thank you everyone! ?

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]]> 6728 Want to watch Apocalypse, The Doll Chronicles right now? https://thedollchronicles.com/dsite/2021/07/08/want-to-watch-apocalypse-the-doll-chronicles-right-now/ Thu, 08 Jul 2021 19:17:52 +0000 https://thedollchronicles.com/dsite/?p=6703 There are 4 ways to watch it right now:


1. Go to one of the festivals the film will be screened at or watch during their online exhibit.


2. Save the soundtrack album on Spotify through the show.co link before July 14th: https://show.co/LPZ5iB3 (it asks you to log-in to Spotify, obviously) and you’ll get a private link to watch it.


3. Pre-order the soundtrack album on Bandcamp and Gumroad before July 14th and you’ll get a private link to watch it:

• Bandcamp (requires e-mail during purchasing so that Franco Esteve may send you the link): https://francoesteve.bandcamp.com/album/apocalypse-the-doll-chronicles-original-soundtrack

• Gumroad (get the private link upon checkout): https://gum.co/badfd

4. Become a Franco Esteve patron on Patreon (any tier) and get a private link to watch it: https://patreon.com/francoesteve


All options let you watch the film and help support the series, so go do whichever you prefer! Thank you everyone. 🙂
Public release of the film on YouTube and Vimeo will occur later this year.

More to come soon…

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]]> 6703 Attention Spotify users: Pre-save the Apocalypse soundtrack on Spotify & Watch the Short Film https://thedollchronicles.com/dsite/2021/07/07/attention-spotify-users-pre-save-the-apocalypse-soundtrack-on-spotify-watch-the-short-film/ Wed, 07 Jul 2021 16:03:37 +0000 https://thedollchronicles.com/dsite/?p=6700

Attention Spotify users: Pre-save the Apocalypse, The Doll Chronicles soundtrack on Spotify and get a private link to watch the short film before its public release! Save it now!

Click here: https://show.co/LPZ5iB3

When you save it, the album will be ready for you to listen to it upon the moment of release on Spotify, July 14th. Enjoy the short film and the music. ?

You can also watch the film before everyone else, when you pre-order the album on Gumroad and Bandcamp during the pre-order period:

• Bandcamp: https://francoesteve.bandcamp.com/album/apocalypse-the-doll-chronicles-original-soundtrack

• Gumroad: https://gum.co/badfd

Final Release of the album on most, popular online stores and streaming platforms is on July 14th.

Not a patron yet? Patrons got early access to the music and film. Become a patron today here: https://patreon.com/francoesteve

More to come soon…

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