The Cannes Film Festival is an extremely prestigious event, but you don't need to have an expensive production team or tons of experience to be featured, as proven by Quentin Dupieux, the director of Le Vertige, a film that looks like an old PlayStation game and tells the story of people realizing they live in a simulation.

Dupieux's piece closed the Directors' Fortnight, an independent section at the festival, and he didn't need much: just Blender, an iPhone, a simple motion capture software, and three actors: Alain Chabat, Jonathan Cohen, and Anaïs Demoustier. 

If the low-poly visuals remind you of PlayStation 2 games, that's no coincidence: the director was inspired by GTA: Vice City.

He added that animated blockbusters "are becoming increasingly elaborate," and it has been "enjoyable to see 3D evolve and deliver a visual feast every time." But now, he doesn't want to make blockbusters, "so I've invented something consistent with my way of working."

What started as an experiment for five animation school graduates was featured at the Directors' Fortnight and is now heading to theaters – now that's a feat and another victory for Blender.

The style of the movie is really fitting for the plot, and if you want to find yourself in a simulation, watch it when it hits French theaters on June 10.

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