The Sky Oscillates Between Eternity and Its Immediate Consequences
Nadim Choufi
The Sky Oscillates Between Eternity and Its Immediate Consequences
2020
Digital video
18 mins
Art Jameel Collection
The Sky Oscillates Between Eternity and Its Immediate Consequences is Nadim Choufi’s winning project from Art Jameel Commissions: Digital’s open call in 2020. Set in a space colony on Earth, this new sci-film explores how the future of smart cities relies on the promise of “sustainable” closed systems in the face of health and ecological crises. Two protagonists narrate how the control and exploitation of environmental life cycles and organisms become a blueprint to achieve such futuristic visions.
The 18-minute film can be viewed exclusively online through Art Jameel’s online platform here. For an optimal viewing experience, viewing on a large screen is encouraged.
This project was made possible with the support of the following collaborators: Mario Hawat (Lead CG artist), Antony Maalouf (Editor), Dayna Ash and Jad Wadi (Voice actors), Nour Sokhon (Composer), Ziad Moukarzel (Sound Mixing), Roula Seghaeir (Translator), featuring Wake Island’s song Last Ruins
Nadim Choufi lives in Beirut and primarily works with video, 3D animation, and sculpture. An alumnus of Ashkal Alwan Home Workspace fellowship, he exhibited his work regionally and internationally in Beirut Art Center, Abu Dhabi’s Warehouse421, Sharjah Art Foundation, The New School in New York, and Macao in Milan.
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