Meridian

4.8

A deserted cliff. Lightning appearing out of nowhere. A mysterious lady all dressed in white. Netflix’s latest original program, “Meridian,” is spooky, confusing, and only 12 minutes long. That’s because although “Meridian” is available on the streaming service worldwide, it was made not for Netflix’s 83 million subscribers, but for algorithms and their programmers. Director Curtis Clark likely had artistic reasons for adding the film’s strange effects. But those elements are primarily there because they tend to trip up video codecs, or software that compresses and decompresses digital video, and other elements of the streaming pipeline.

Discover

Elyse Levesque

Mysterious Woman

Dakota Bailey

Dispatch (voice)

Joseph Buttler

Mannequin

Art

Mari Lappalainen

Production Design

Camera

Markus Förderer

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Margarita Delgado

Costume Design

Maggie Maceri

Costume Design

Gina Nicole Maceri

Makeup Artist

Directing

Curtis Clark

Director

Editing

Production

Chris Fetner

Executive Producer

Andrea Sastoque

Line Producer

Malcolm Duncan

Producer

Mike Whipple

Executive Producer

Sound

Alex Kovacs

Original Music Composer

Writing