Areas of set painted black give the illusion of shadow and when coupled with the sharp jagged edges of the set creates this distorted, warped interpretation of reality that Francis is seeing

UFA is a German film production company that made some of the most technically advanced and artistically incredible expressionist films during the silent film era. in modern days UFA is a subsidiary to FreeMantle media and as of 2013 produces TV programmers. During the rise to power of the Nazis, UFA became a production company of Nazi propaganda, and after the fall of the Nazi regime it became a producer of soviet propaganda until the 1980’s when after the Berlin wall fell many of the UFA studios where overhauled and began to be used once again as it felt wrong to demolish something that is a large amount of German heritage.