Runway Freefall

Synopsis

Runway Freefall is a born-digital animation film about an impossible love story situated in a nocturnal deserted industrial cityscape. The music video depicts an imaginary takeover of two rental e-scooters dancing the night away. It is part of a series of CGI short motion clips marking an artistic shift from traditional filmmaking to post-cinematic gaming engines. In the series, the artist creates fabricated hyper-realistic urban sceneries depicting embodied machines at play. Light, movement, sound, and visual effects lead the way into this imaginary urban landscape, commenting on today's increasingly commerce-dominated cities and the trash they produce.

Cast and crew

About the director(s):
Rodeh is a Berlin-based visual artist, scenographer, and urban practitioner. Rooted in the perception of the nocturnal built environment, at the core of her artistic practice is creating large, immersive virtual and physical environments incorporating light, sound, and movement. She publishes research-driven artist magazines and practices nocturnal night walks. Fueled by an interest in the qualities of materials and technologies that shape our built environment, her meta-project Safe and Sound (2014–ongoing) explores histories of emergency. Her work is currently focused on creating born-digital motion clips presented in exhibitions and shorter waveforms online.

Alona Rodeh

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