This multiplayer VR experience invites us to witness a sacred ritual of the Kenyan Kikuyu community, in which a man can turn into a woman and a woman into a man.
In the mythology of the Kikuyu community the Mugumo, the Kenyan fig tree, represents transformation and rebirth. This multiplayer VR experience invites us to witness a sacred ritual: Dancing around the Mugumo can turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man. We follow Waicici, a genderless person, in the quest for the most honest version of themselves.
Lars Rummel
Credits
Producer
Antoine Cayrol, Steve Jelly
Co-Producer
Steve Jelly, Arnaud Colinart, Opeyemi Olukemi, Rafael Pavon, Annick Jakobowicz, Simon Windsor
Production Company
POV Spark, France Télévisions, Dimension, Atlas V
Choreographer
Stephen Buescher
Key Collaborator
Andrew Orkin, Banna Dasta, Toby Coffey, Steve Jelly, Simon Windsor, Akash Kushwaha, Annick Jakobowicz, Stephen Buescher, Opeyemi Olukemi, Arnaud Colinart, Rafael Pavon, Antoine Cayrol, Derren Sinnott
A synaesthetic essay film: Dystopic and anonymous stories merge in a collage of the disturbing social and political phenomena in times of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The global COVID-19 pandemic has changed human relationships. Archive material, 360° footage and artificially generated images are used to create a synaesthetic essay film about loneliness, insecurity and the increasing shift of our everyday life into the digital realm. Dystopic and anonymous stories merge in a collage of the disturbing social and political phenomena of our time.
Lars Rummel
Credits
Producer
Rodrigo Moreira
Production Company
Mundivagante Studio
Editor
Lui Avallos
Narrator
Lui Avallos, Agnese Riaudo, Filippo Stagnini, Jessica Menezes
The fictional story of a scientific experiment: The scientist Roderick Norman extracts dreams from a skeleton, which raises questions of gender identity.
How are we shaped by our DNA? The 360° film tells the story of fictional scientist Roderick Norman, who tries to extract dreams from an unidentified skeleton that are inscribed in the blueprint of this ruin of a body. This black and white collage of text, 3D images and traditional film footage questions our conventional understanding of gender and identity.
Lars Rummel
Credits
Producer
Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains
Co-Producer
Caza d’Oro – Centre International d'Art Contemporain