8 Billion Selves
Synopsis
There are 8 billion people living on Earth now. 8 billion people. 8 billion different faces. 8 billion different stories. On one planet. "8 Billion Selves" by Nemo Vos takes the scenic route across this planet. In the shoes of an observing visitor, we travel through the world where 8 billion people are born, work, wage war, love, dance, create art, and die. What you think. What you smell. What you taste. What you feel. There is no one who thinks, smells, tastes, or feels the same as you. There is no one with your story. With your history. And yet... we are a mass. We behave like a swarm. We wage war like a tribe. We are afraid like a herd. "8 Billion Selves" by Nemo Vos is not a film. VR is an unexplored, new medium for which no visual language has been developed yet. It seeks to find a new form of poetry. What you see, what you experience, is something that only you can truly feel. Only you. Among 8 billion others.
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Cast and crew
About the director(s):
Tibor de Jong is best known under the pseudonym Nemo Vos. He is an Utrecht-based artist and graduate of St. Joost School of Art & Design Breda. Nemo Vos creates poetic work using 3D software, scans, and film. In his work, both the physical and visual aspects of VR are utilized to explore a new way of storytelling. A recurring theme in his work is humanity, the human, us, in times of polarization and digitalism. Through collaboration with other art forms (such as musicians, actors, and perfumers), he creates live shows where the boundaries between the “real” tactile, analog world and the virtual VR world are blurred and explored. He has collaborated with Obey Clothing, Spinvis and Robin Kester. With the latter he has created various animated music films and VR-projects, generating dream flights for adults through abstract virtual worlds. Doris Konings is a 3D artist. Where Nemo Vos creates VR worlds, Doris breathes life into them. In this collaboration under the name of Studio Nemo Vos, Doris explores the possibilities of animation techniques and visual language. She infuses humanity by animating elements like a trembling hand, a blooming flower, a river that meanders, a branch breaking and falling over the road, or a TV powering on. Her characters convey the same message through concise, stripped-down loops, leaving no narrative unnoticed.
Tibor de Jong, Doris Konings
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