On Thursday April 3rd, Tirtza Even (ITP '95) and Nadav Assor opened their installation Chronicle of a Fall at Bates College, Maine, through Bates College's Impact 21st program.
Chronicle of a Fall, a feature-length immersive installation, depicts the fragmented, in-transit, experience of six immigrant cultural workers from the Middle East, Africa and the Global South, who all negotiate the meaning of ‘home’ within a precarious socio-political landscape.
Paying homage to Rouch’s classic Chronicle of a Summer, the project updates the Cinema Verité approach using emerging technologies.
To provide an intimate insight into the participants’ lives, the speakers all wear body-cameras. In addition, we use a laser-scanner to capture and convert their environments into 3D-'point-clouds'. Thus, a connective space is formed between them, that is both fragmented and in-transit.
Visitors are invited to “step into” and explore the semi-abstract projected spaces. On the backside of hanging screens, they discover close-up videos of the characters' conversations and reflections around the central questions of home and migration, love, loss, and longing.
An in-depth review of the installation’s exhibition at Gallery 400, Chicago, can be found on Hyperallergic, June 2022.
The show will be open until May 2nd. Exhibition hours can be found here.
