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nine earths » launch

plans change. nine earths was called a film so many times by so many people, that the original call and proposal fell by the wayside: it became a short film, mike’s after effects pre-vis reworked into a final piece.

and so: it’s shown at COP26, with mike representing what’s ended up taking most of his year. but before that, a launch at the BFI. in-person! again, a first post-lockdown-new-normal mindset event for many. good to see faces from scenes gone by, the call of ‘expanded cinema’ once more heard.

Nine Earths is a unique environmental documentary that explores the relationship between everyday events and humanity’s excessive demand for the Earth’s resources. The project has engaged nearly a hundred collaborators to create a mosaic of day-to-day life, using footage shot by international collaborators. The project looks into the relationships between consumption levels of countries and individuals, cultural differences and similarities, and how we are all inextricably connected.

diary | 01 nov 2021 | tagged: dfuse · nine earths

nine earths » end to end

d-fuse won a british council call to create an artwork to be part of the cop26 climate change conference. the idea was to create a piece on consumption built out of user-generated content from around the world. working with partners around the world, we’d take a cutural probe approach, and frame it all through the idea of consumption rates vs. what the earth can sustain, as exemplified by earth overshoot day. in a time of covid, this all could be remote, and it be presented online.

and so: a first draft of what that might take. a server app to ingest the media, and a client web app that can animate the title card, go through an introduction, and then display a mosaic of the submitted content, indefinitely. far from a refined design or the full content in mike’s increasingly elaborate after-effects pre-vis / guide, but an end-to-end something.

diary | 26 aug 2021 | tagged: dfuse · nine earths · code