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  • Metaverse: We are at the end of something (2020)
  • Short | Animation, Short
Metaverse: We are at the end of something (2020)
Short | Animation, Short
Metaverse: We are at the end of something made in collaboration with Ryan Vautier and Sakeema Crook, is built inside a gaming engine. This speculative world is a metaconcept of disparate events, human emotion and ideology in a post Covid-...See moreMetaverse: We are at the end of something made in collaboration with Ryan Vautier and Sakeema Crook, is built inside a gaming engine. This speculative world is a metaconcept of disparate events, human emotion and ideology in a post Covid-19 world: from social distancing, the philosophy of rapidly advancing technology, growing wealth inequality, exacerbated divisions in ideology, to a battle between visions of an egalitarian or hierarchical utopia. By creating a new space and time that feels like it's in the future, this subversion allows you to reflect on the contemporary as though the now is history, with a perspective that pulls you out of the contemporary bubble and a birds eye view to contemplate the network of multiple issue and topic. In this world Keiken have created multiple characters, some are real people. Through character building Keiken explores the architecture of the body which in our current climate there is a technological race to colonise our internal land - the mind and body with a lack of political wisdom. Inside this world humans have glass pregnant bellies each displaying objects, they are vessels and carriers of the tools of our culture, consciousness, feeling and belief from one space and time into another. This references Ursula Le Guin's The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction and her desire to reframe history. Le Guin argues that the first tool was in fact not a spear, a weapon of violence and competition, but actually a vessel - a 'carrier bag': "Before the tool that forces energy outward, we made the tool that brings energy home." See less
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Directors
Keiken | Ryan Vautier (co-director)
Writer
Keiken
Composer
Florentin Tudor
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Updated Sep 7, 2020
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Sep 7, 2020 (United Kingdom)

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