CROSSMEDIA PROJECT
IDA / THE EAST
Platforms and presentation setting: interactive cinema
documentary film
short film
web / game
interactive exhibition/ installation
presentation
The film is set in an Eastern European industrial area. The main sources of inspiration for the film are the artificial landscapes and industrial environment of East-Estonia, where both the nature and the people have undergone change. The action takes place in the large abandoned industrial complexes, which have gone out of business due to the economic recession, and in the buildings of the large industries that are still operating.
The viewer of the film can select objects and different characters with whom to move on in the action track. All the characters of the film are realistically associated with the buildings and problems of that area. Each character and building has a story to tell, unraveling when the viewer activates different details in the room.
An important place in the film belongs to sounds. Real sounds have been applied, combined with electronic ones (speech fragments of persons, industrial sounds, etc.).
The film maps the industrial architecture and marginal people of a small country in Europe. In the framework of the project we examine how and in which ways an Eastern European identifies himself/herself and which are the characters typical to Eastern Europe.
Interactive web "The EAST - EXIT"
Interactive Cinema "The EAST"
Interactive Cinema is mostly adapted for several little cinema halls. Each seat is supplied with console by which is possible to dispose the proceed at display. The principle of console is similarities with the voting system where it is possible to choice the several kind cinema material from suitable clips at display. The film is consisted of the passages with 2-3 minutes. The order of slices by onlooker is convertible . If the onlooker doesn't get involve in to process of passage then the film is going as linearity. In this film is used an archival images and several fragments of the news.
Documentary film “The EAST- 50 meter long from border of the East”
The development of documentary film is quite parallel with the interactive film. The themes of film is distributed on three parts: - the first part of film has been saved in 2012 year when the employees have planned to organize the extensive strike at theirs enterprises; - the second part focuses on state of mind on Russian boundaries citizens according theirs identity – up to boundary of East is 50 meters only; - the third part focuses on illusion of leaders of the large-scale industries related developing oil factory. According above the one of themes is the time also and alterations which influence the issue of film. In this film has been used also the corresponding archival images.
Installation / Exhibition "The EAST- DEMOCRATIC CINEMA"
The exhibition / installation version / can be adapted for different kinds of spaces. The exhibition can be presented repeatedly for a few weeks or up to month.
The first exhibition took place in the Riigikogu building in 2015, from January 19 to 23.
The project can also be introduced to a more specific target group on a single occasion using the presentation format, and this can also provide an opportunity for a detailed introduction and analysis of the technical execution of the subject.