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Kusunda

Kusunda
Felix Gaedtke, Gayatri Parameswaran
Extended Reality 2022
XR
Germany,
Nepal,
Sweden,
Switzerland,
Taiwan
2021
23 minutes
English,
Nepali,
Kusunda

The Nepalese shaman Lil Bahadur and his granddaughter Hima have dedicated themselves to the revival of his native language, Kusunda. It’s about more than communication, namely identity, tradition and awareness of one’s own history. The interactive voice-control of this VR experience allows us to learn Kusunda ourselves. We learners become human archives of an all but lost indigenous language.

Lars Rummel

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Co-Producer
Sönke Kirchhof, Philipp Wenning, Emma Creed, Aliki Tsakoumi, Kuan-Yuan Lai
Executive Producer
René Pinnell
Creative Producer
Felix Gaedtke, Gayatri Parameswaran, Mia von Kolpakow
Production Company
NowHere Media
Animation
Moritz Mayerhofer
VR Developer
Tobias Wehrum
Sound
Mads Michelsen, David Segal
Key Collaborator
Gyani Maiya Kusunda, Lil Bahadur Kusunda, Hima Kusunda
Director
Felix Gaedtke, Gayatri Parameswaran