Flora Reznik
NEW WORLDERS
Trailer description: “New Worlders” points at the nickname colonisers gave to Americans, but also to the capacity to build new worlds. The young researcher, a Jewish Argentinian woman living in the near future, wonders about what took her aunt to the unknown. Through a fictional journey that takes responsibility for the obsession of "the West" about penetrating the so called virgin Amazon, she delves into the sexualised and violent narratives that haunt our imagination about that place: like worms in the skulls of the dead, like dreams in the minds of the living. This film is an attempt to create a different way of telling this story, by presenting a research based speculative near-future sci-fi story about the history and future of rubber, a hidden backbone of the global economy, much at the edge of collapse due to, in part, an unruly fungus. It concerns biopiracy in times of genetic engineering, the scope of synthetic fantasies, global production chains of supply, ecology, scientific innovation and resistance.
The animations below, showcase the CGI created for the film, which include a serie of animations and digital environments. From the depth of Atlantis to the surface of the Rio das Mortes. From light misty particles in the tree tops to heavy muddy tires getting stuck.
Animations
Producer, Writer & Director : Flora Reznik
CGI Artist : Martin Menso
Camera : Ariela Bergman & Jesse Bom
Sound recording & sound post producer : Jorrit van Rijn
Voice over : Anne La Berge
Performers : Yun Lee, Tommy Ventevogel, Elen Braga, Mano Daniel Szollosi & Vera Goetzee
Music composer : Tomer Baruch
Trumpet : Tal Avraham
"New Worlders" was a part of Art Rotterdam and Fiber Festival 2022. Created with the support of Mondriaan Fonds