Virtual Reality Africa at Berlinale Africa Hub

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Virtual Reality Africa at Berlinale Africa Hub --

Wed, 01 Feb 2017 11:26

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Electric South and the Goethe-Institut present New Dimensions Virtual Reality Africa, a selection of Virtual Reality (VR) productions from Kenya, Senegal and Ghana. Each of these works offers a view of the vibrant, diverse and ever-changing cultural landscape of contemporary Africa. An exclusive preview of works in progress will be on show at the 2017 Berlinale Africa Hub at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale).

Included is the VR work Spirit Robot by Ghanaian science fiction author and founder of the Afrocyberpunk website Jonathan Dotse who explored the Chale Wote Street Art Festival in Accra. The festival is driving an art renaissance in the city s public spaces. Kenyan photographer Ng endo Mukii produced a poetic city symphony on Nairobi in the VR piece Nairobi Berries, consisting of her lyrical voice-over alongside surreal, layered images of the city. Her synopsis reads In the empty spaces we cannot claim as our own, in forests full of smoke and beneath still waters, two women and a man wrangle. Each must hollow out the other s core for fruits promised but only ever borne in dreams. For this is Nairobi, the city we call home. Senegalese fashion designer Selly Raby Kane presents a magical 360 piece, in which a little girl is chosen to discover the invisible Dakar. Kenyan The Nest Collective created an interactive work set in the distant future, when a group of Africans leave the Earth to create a new colony.

Ingrid Kopp and Steven Markovitz, founders of Electric South, said: The aim of this collaboration with the Goethe-Institut is to provide funding support and mentorship to African storytellers and artists in the development and production of their own VR ideas, and introducing African and international audiences to African-produced VR.

Said Lien Heidenreich-Seleme, head of Cultural Programmes for Subsaharan-Africa at the Goethe-Institut South Africa: As part of our work with the theme future , we are exploring virtual reality not only with filmmakers, but with artists from very different disciplines all over Sub Saharan Africa. We are excited to see how new technological means will allow for new stories being told.

New Dimensions is presented by Electric South and the Goethe-Institut, supported by Big World Cinema, Blue Ice Docs and the Bertha Foundation.

Dates:

Panel Discussion and Cocktail at the European Film Market Opening: Friday 10 February, 16h00 to 17h00 (Panel), 17h30 to 18h30 (Cocktail)

VR works screening in the VR lounge from 09h00 to 19h00 daily

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