Installations

Climate Clips

All around the world, signs of climate change are different. In the interactive website Climate Clips, you can travel the globe and listen to children from all corners of the earth talking about pollution and the consequences of climate change in their immediate surroundings. What role does nature play in their lives, where do they think things are going wrong, and what solutions do they see to save the world?

In the Climate Clips Globe we meet Elena from Italy, Hortencia from Madagascar, Jaden from Switzerland, Ileni from Namibia, Julieta from Curacao, Kyara from Costa Rica, Luoxuan from China and many others and find out how waste, excessive traffic, pollution, drought and the plastic soup are part of their everyday lives. Thanks to their involved, honest tone, the observations and thoughts of these youngsters provide a remarkably clear, engaging and personal look at the state of our planet. This new generation is clearly ready to speak out for change – for example in these Climate Clips.

Earth Speakr

Are you worried about the climate, but afraid that your voice isn’t being heard? The studio of world-famous artistt Olafur Eliasson has a solution. Using the app Earth Speakr, you can film yourself as you give a message about your solution for a better climate. Your face then transforms into a digital character, which you can place in a surface in your immediate vicinity. For example, you could get a tomato with your voice to talk about the use of pesticides in agriculture, or have an old chestnut tree complain about deforestation of the Amazon, or let a pool of water have its say about the plastic soup in the oceans.

Thanks to this smart application, it’s as if the earth itself is joining in the daily discussions. The app also allows you to hear other messages from children all over the world. So Earth Speakr becomes a loudspeaker for the future of the climate.

MIRJAM MARKS

THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 8+

FACTS

Project website climateclips.org Artist website tangerinetree.nl Production company Tangerine Tree, tangerinetree.nl Producer Nienke Korthof, Willem Baptist Assistant Producer Hannah Borchard, Mascha Arkink Design Rob Maas Graphic Designer Martijn Boot

OLAFUR ELIASSON

GERMANY | 2020 | 7+

FACTS

Project website aerthspeakr.art Artist website olafureliasson.net Production company Studio Olafur Eliasson, olafureliasson.net

Filtered: The Hmm on Your Face

There’s nothing so changeable as your face: at least, in these times of face filters. For years now, it’s been easy to put on a funny mask on Instagram, transform yourself into an animal or monster, see what you will look like when you are old or dust your face with eternal digital youth. The Hmm, an organisation that carries out research into how digital image culture is changing our lives, have collected fifteen face filters from all over the world, and now you can try them all. However many you may have tried in the past, now it’s not only companies making these filters, but also other internet users, as it’s getting easier all the time to publish your own filters and spread them all over the world.

Filtered: The Hmm on Your Face shows off the best face filters the world has to offer. The strangest, the most grotesque, the most beautiful and the funniest. Once you have chosen a filter, you can use it yourself on Instagram. This installation was created specially for Cinekid and The Hmm.

Fonies

In Fonies, you use your smartphone to open up new portals to another world, full of digital animals. Using a web application and a place marker, you conjure up these creatures in AR, and they then merge with the real environment. The strangest beings can appear on your screen, and it’s just like they exist in the real world. The animals in Fonies are fantasy creatures, all different and all equally surprising. And diverse, as they all like different environments. For example, an animal that thrives in a cold environment will be happiest in the fridge, no? And animals with a preference for water can appear in the bath or the shower.

By printing out the AR place markers or copying them by hand, you can transform your own house into a new AR universe. The place marker acts as a digital portal to another world, and how this reaches into our world is completely up to you. Fonies was made specially for Cinekid.

THE HMM

THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 6+

FACTS

Project website onyourface.thehmm.nl Artist website thehmm.nl Lead programmer & design Erik Sachse Design Erik Sachse Set production House of Bouw Face filter design @pascalsendar, @annehorel, @davidoreilly, @mitsukokubota, @gijswahl, @iamcraiglewis2, @eddyin3d, @johwska, @oleg.pashkovsky, @iamvictorcrespo, @i_look_better_online, @pablo.rochat Concept The Hmm Funded by Cinekid, Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie Thank you all wonderful face filter models

XR-LAB

THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 6+

FACTS

Project fonies.nl Artistt website xr-lab.nl Production company XR-lab, xr-lab.nl Lead Programmer Dimitri van Manen Programmer Juda Hensen, Marcin Zalewski, Lucas de Jonghe, Thomas Linsen, Tiesto Schouten Producer Merel Booleman, Steven Honders Concept Ruben Koops, Martijn Vorstenbosch commissioned by Cinekid Game Designer Ruben Koops, Martijn Vorstenbosch Lead Artistt Reniet de Vries Art Zoe Baars, Derrick Aboagye, Madelief de Vries, Rumeysa Bozkurt, Luke van Klooster

The Fortune Teller

In The fortune teller, we get to know Mother Earth in the form of a soothsayer. She is stunning, serene and caring and, in spite of her age, still looks fresh and healthy. But is she really? Through a number of critical questions and assignments, she probes whether you are thinking sufficiently about the state of the planet. Are you recycling? Be honest! Do you make sure you’re not wasting too much when you do your shopping? She is stricter than you think – while the temptation to consume is greater than ever, as advertising is omnipresent. At the end of your conversation with the soothsayer you receive a Tarot card made specially for you, showing what the future holds for the Earth as you will leave it behind.

TeYosh (Sofija Stankovic and Teodora Stojkovic) have been at Cinekid before: in 2017 they won the audience award for their VR world Bananza. The Fortune Teller was made specially for Cinekid with support from the Mondriaan Fund.

De Futurotheek

In the Futurotheque, you can find out what role ‘Facial Recognition Software’ could play in your life in the future. Because computers recognise your face and can, wherever they want, look at what you are doing in life. Things such as: are you really old enough to watch this film on Netflix? Did you have a good day, or can I cheer you up? That might not be so bad. But imagine that the computer tells you you should maybe eat less sweet stuff and get more exercise – in short, that you’re getting fat? Or that it follows you everywhere you go, in stores and online, and so knows exactly what you buy so it can make you a new target for advertising?

In the Futurotheek, we discover, step by step, the strange, beautiful, absurd and at times dangerous influence of what happens when your face becomes data and a commercial property in a future that is increasingly difficult to predict.

TEYOSH

THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 7+

FACTS

Project website ecofortuneteller.com Artist website teyosh. com Funded by Mondriaan Fonds Lead programmer DXR Zone Commissioned by Cinekid

SANDER VEENHOF, LEONIEKE VERHOOG

THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 7+

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Project website futurotheek.nl Artist website www.sndrv.nl Co developer Frank Bosma Funded by Cinekid & Nederlands Filmfestival Thank you Paulien Dresscher

Parallel Archaeologies

The internet is older than you think, and a whole load of decisions were taken on the way to making the digital world. It could have all looked very different! In Parallel Archaeologies, we meet the alternative digital world we don’t know yet. As if in a technology folklore fairy tale, we look into a wishing well and see a new world – and before we know it, we’ve fallen in. While falling, we discover all the alternative worlds which, parallel to our own, resemble the internet we know, but have evolved just a little differently. Each digital world – whether a website, a game or a VR world – starts with code; the binary building block for everything digital.

Work by Geoffrey Lillemon has been at Cinekid before: in 2017, with Dept of New Realities by Wieden+Kennedy, he won the jury award for the VR game Senseless Fairytale and showed the VR zombie cycling game Bitmap Banshees. Parallel Archaeologies was made specially for Cinekid with support from the Mondriaan Fund.

GEOFFREY LILLEMON

THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 6+

FACTS

Project website parallelarchaeologies.geoffreylillemon.com Artist website geoffreylillemon.com Co-production company Random Studio, random.studio Lead Programmer Philip Ghering Programmer Larix Kortbeek Assistant Producer Rachael Short Sound Thomas de Rijk commissioned by Cinekid Funded by Mondriaan Fonds

Pit-a-pat

While the internet is filling up with videos, noisy vloggers and influencers on platforms such as YouTube and Instagram, in recent years a more subtle, absurd genre has arisen: ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response). Unpacking videos; squeaky plastic; hoarse voices; eating with as much noise and pleasure as possible: these sounds give us ‘brain tingles’, lovely sensations in our brains that give us a cosy feeling. ASMR videos seem strange to the uninitiated and are characterised by high-quality audio and usually purely functional images, in which the maker painstakingly performs a whole range of auditory feats.

In Pit-a-pat, Eden Mitsenmacher introduces us to ASMR in an interactive environment. Online and in the physical installation, the viewer can bring together different sounds, depicted using GIF animations, to form a single audio-visual comfort zone. Use ASMR audio to create your own personal audio cosy space in your headphones, and marvel at how a random sound can suddenly be surprisingly exciting. Pit-a-pat was made specially for Cinekid with support from the Mondriaan Fund.

EDEN MITSENMACHER

THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 5+

FACTS

Project website pitapat.org Artist website edenmitsenmacher. wordpress.com Lead Programmer David Jonas, davidjonas.art Programmer Arimit Bhattacharya, arimitb.com, Jasper Kamphuis, thebestunknown.com Commissioned by Cinekid Funded by Mondriaan Fonds

The Portal

In The Portal, we discover what could be possible if technology and science were used for the good of society, instead of big tech giants and governments who use it mainly to grab and keep hold of power. In this Instagram adventure – a series of fifteen episodes – we follow Anna who, depressed by the world in which she’s growing up, discovers a portal to the future. She makes friends with an Artificial Intelligence her own age, encounters Deep Fake technology and discovers, step by step, how an unpredictable future full of technology need not necessarily be threatening. In fact, maybe innovation could be our salvation. The Portal is her Instagram record of this turbulent search for a hopeful future.

The Kissinger Twins (Katarzyna Kifert and Dawid Marcinkowski) created The Portal for EU Connect to open up a different perspective on technology in Europe. Their previous works include the highly praised Sufferosa, a multimedia project launched at Sundance which went on to win a Webby (the internet Oscars).

RGB Together

In a world of LCD monitors, tablets, laptops and spectacular smartphone screens, it would be easy to forget how simple the process of creating colour on these screens is: RGB stands for Red Green and Blue, the three basic colours that can be mixed into any colour whatsoever using pixels. In RGB Together, you can test for yourself, using your body, how to bring these RGB values into balance to create an exact colour. It’s not as easy as you might think, however simple the input you give might seem.

The R, G and B form a huge swirl of confetti in response to your body as seen by a webcam. Then all the colour pixels get mixed together and a digital colour emerges. Can you really have an influence on the result? Or what if you try it together: if three children each control R, G and B? Will they all agree (and jump for joy on the screen)? RGB Together was made specially for Cinekid and MU, with support from KunstLoc Brabant.

KISSINGER TWINS

UNITED KINGDOM | 2020 | 8+

FACTS

Project website instagram.com/theportaldiaries/ Artist website kissingertwins.com Lead Programmer Popesz Lang Producer Jan Świerkowski Graphic designer Agata Marcinkowska Composer Ollie Taylor Photographer Katarzyna Kifert Video Max Ziemba Sound Max Ziemba Commissioned European Commission, DG Connect Animator Agata Marcinkowska

ALICE WONG, SIMO TSE

THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 9+

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Project website jonasersland.net Artist website missalicewong.com, simo-tse.net Music Yuval Reuven, reuven.nl Lead Programmer Jonas Ersland Design Alice Wong, Simo Tse, Jonas Ersland, jonasersland.net commissioned by Cinekid, MU Funded by KunstLoc Brabant

Sub/liminal Soundscapes II

Hearing, feeling, stroking and looking: in the digital era, you could be forgiven for thinking that your senses are irrelevant. After all, all the stimuli in our lives are input or output from a digital translation process. In Ildikó Horváth installation Sub/liminal Soundscapes, you can re-learn what sound is. More than a digital track, this is a spatial experience in which a vibrating bass tone passes around the installation through several ceramic sculptures linked to one another. How does sound feel – do you remember? And how different can it feel if the physical sound carrier changes?

By interacting with the installation, you learn how sound lives on, from place to place, as an echo within its own environment. More tactile, beautiful, exciting and palpable than you think. We don’t only hear with our ears – we also use our hands.

ILDIKÓ HORVÁTH

THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 4+

FACTS

Artist website ildikohorvath.com Technical support Fedde ten Berghe, Frank Baldé, Okke van Breemen, Yannick Adriaansen Thank you STEIM Foundation

Found

Poetic mini game in which you play two characters looking for each other in the snowy woods. How? Just trace each other’s steps and check which trees you can see!

FERRAN BERTOMEU CASTELLS

THE NETHERLANDS | 2018 | 4+

FACTS Keyboard Twister

A great retro variant of the ‘limbs all over the place’ game. All you need is a keyboard, but don’t think that makes it easy...

Website fonserbc.net Art Vanja Mrgan Twitter @vmrgan Music Elie Abraham

Helionaut

In this weird, cheerful, endlessly generating universe you can discover new micro-planets, asteroids and UFOs. But remember: your own spaceship needs parts!

RUBEN NAUS

THE NETHERLANDS | 2020 | 7+

FACTS

Website sokpop.co Production company Sokpop Collective

Music Tom van den Boogaart, Aran Koning

Own Worst Enemy

In this clever game you are a hungry amoeba. But watch out: every time you eat something, you get another doppelganger!

ADAM PYPE

UNITED STATES | 2018 | 4+

BHARAT RAMAN, BRIAN PINKLEY, BURAK YILDIRIM

UNITED STATES | 2020 | 8+

A Short Hike

As a bird, you can walk, climb and fly through wonderful, atmospheric, ever-changing mountain landscapes – but be careful, the weather can turn in an instant.

Stereophyta

In Stereophyta, everything makes music. You can create a melody by walking through the landscape and make new instruments by planting seeds.

ADAM ROBINSON-YU

CANADA | A | 5+

FACTS

Website adamgryu.com, thestaticman.itch.io/stereophytaii Art Dawn Blair Production company Whippoorwill Limited Programmer Adam Robinson-Yu Logo design David

Czarnowski

KAS GHOBADI

UNITED STATES | 2020 | 6+

FACTS

Website thestaticman.itch.io/stereophytaii