Het Documentaire Paviljoen and We Are Public present an evening where various disciplines and themes grow interchangeably intertwined. Film, performance, music and digital art meet each other through chronological and cultural boundaries. The body intermingles with code. Humanity collides with nature, but is also enchanted by it.
The short films Our Ark (Deniz Tortum, Kathryn Hamilton) and Forest On Location (Persijn Broersen, Margit Lukács) explore virtual replica's and back-ups of our natural worlds: an ark full of animals, a forest filled with trees - completely computer-generated.
In the live performance Bones, Goda Žukauskaitė searches for the collective memory of our ancestors. She dances across centuries and cultures, focusing on the symbolic significance of bones. Inspired by the archetype La Loba — the untameable woman — Žukauskaitė shows that bones do not have to be associated only with death, but can also be a sign of life and (re)birth. With music by multi-instrumentalist Dizzi Geetha.
Bones is supported by the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.
Now that it’s technologically possible, we are trying to record virtuallyour entire world. In this video essay, Deniz Tortum and Kathryn Hamilton ask complex philosophical questions that are easily overlooked as developments hurtle ever onwards.
In a replica of the last remains of Europe’s last primeval forest Białowieża, the avatar Shahram Yazdani sings his Farsi version of the popular hit song “Nature Boy.” Nature is presented as a virtual construct, meandering between the mythical and the actual.