Fund This: Uncover The Mystery Behind ‘A Murder At The Casidir Motel’

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Project Name: A Murder At The Casidir Motel

Asking For: $1,080 on Kickstarter

Amount Raised Thus Far (At Time Of Post): $662

Days Remaining In Campaign (At Time Of Post): 11

Description: A new project on Kickstarter is looking to add another chapter to the web series community’s library of murder mysteries. A group of creators from New Zealand have turned to their backers in order to fund A Murder At The Casidir Motel, which will tell a whodunit story that bends time.

Casidir Motel will take place at its titular venue, where a woman has been found stabbed to death in a bathtub. In order to uncover the truth about her death, a pair of detectives choose to look back it time. On the surface, the series sounds similar to Memento, the Christopher Nolan thriller that famously toys with time and perspective.

I would love to tell you more about Casidir Motel, but that’s really all I’ve got; the series’ campaign page is very vague, perhaps purposefully so, and so we’ll just have to wait to learn more details. In the meantime, you can take a look at the show’s pitch video, which is equally short and mysterious, but also artful and enticing.

Creator Bio: Seerat Mast, who posted the Casidir Motel campaign on Kickstarter, is a student at the Auckland University of Technology. Like the show she’s working on, she doesn’t have a big footprint on the Internet.

Best Perk: Anyone who contributes at least $50 to Casidir Motel will receive a video message from the crew. There’s no word as to whether that message will be filmed in reverse.

Why You Should Fund It: The introductory video for Casidir Motel, which runs for just 22 seconds, offers far less information about the show its selling than a typical Kickstarter pitch. At the same time, those 22 seconds are extremely intriguing. We learn that Casidir Motel will have a distinct visual style, that it will be shot with care and precision, and that it won’t give its secrets away so easily. If the show’s team truly needs just $1,080 to complete their project, than they deserve to reach their goal. Casidir Motel may be a low-ceiling Kickstarter campaign, but it’s got enough style and enough potential to draw my attention.

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