a 360°film for VRheadset. For iM Konsthall and Northern Sustainable Futures
Dancing on a frozen lake under the Northern Lights, or resting on a sleeping volcano with its head above the clouds, foot deep in the ocean; the reality of our atmosphere, solar storms and the liquid iron core of Earth become tangible and real. But what is reality?
In The Eye Of The Beholder is a short 360°film for VRheadset, playing with the perspective of electromagnetic particles traveling through space and our atmosphere, momentarily shaping colors, worlds and bodies depending on the eyes and retinas of the beholders.
On the frozen lake, between sky and earth, we reconnect with The Traveling Companion/s in various shapes and stages of becoming, humanlike mythological creatures and ritualistic movements connected to nature and spirituality. The world’s a stage, Plato’s cave a black hole where our projections move and live, held together by curiosity and attraction, manifesting a body or bodies, learning to navigate limbs and life. The unknown can feel both intimidating and safe.
The visuals experiment with light, bodies, textiles, movement and perspectives, further tweaked through digital film editing.
The sound intro/outro by Klaus Nielsen & Nikolai Linden-Vørnle mixes data sonifications from 24 hours of a geomagnetic storm in 2011, caused by solar flares, and activity in the magnetic core of the Earth in Moskosel and Mauna Kea (Hawaii, USA) during 100000 years.
The tracks Suitar_Samba by Ewan Hill, and Strings and Digging_up_an_original by The Quantizer group, are sonifications of particle data from CERN. (Links in credits.)
Credits / Collaborators
Dance with balloons; Natalia Drozd
Giant hands dance; Lena Biresh, Mario Mau, Alicia Ortega, Maria Reihs
Soundscape, intro & outro Magnetic core; Klaus Nielsen & Nikolai Linden-Vørnle, DTU
http://maplepools.dk
Soundtrack Suitar_Samba, Strings, and Digging_up_an_original; Ewan Hill & Quantizer group 13 TeV ATLAS (CERN)
https://soundcloud.com/sonification-quantizer/gina-is-da-bomb
https://soundcloud.com/sonification-quantizer/we-are-the-knights-who-say-ni-we-demand-a-sacrifice
https://soundcloud.com/sonification-quantizer/digging_up_an_original
Music and film shared under Creative Commons License 4.0.
A huge thank you to Northern Sustainable Futures, iM Konsthall, and all fellow beings in Moskosel!
The Event horizon 