ABOVE: trailer for the project including installation documentation and video excerpts
Chronicle of a Fall is an immersive experimental documentary created by Tirtza Even and Nadav Assor. The project depicts the fragmented, in-transit, experience of a group of immigrant cultural workers, primarily from the Middle East and the Global South, that are scattered around the contemporary US. This is done by using emerging technologies such as parallel body worn cameras, volumetric capture and projection mapping.
The project is guided by the question “what is home to you?”, much like “Chronicle of a Summer”, the film we refer to in the title of our project, did with the question “are you happy?”.
Visitors to the installation are immersed inside a pointillized 3D world created from the interconnected fragments of our participants’ shifting domestic spaces as well as the public environments they navigate. Within these semi-abstract, intertwined, and constantly slipping spaces and soundscapes, the viewers encounter close-up videos of intimate conversations and reflections around the central questions of home and migration, love, loss, and longing.
You can find more information, some images and an installation walkthrough narrated by us at the project website, Chronicleofafall.org. Longer video excerpts are available on request.
Recent press for our first exhibition, at Gallery 400 in Chicago:
– An in-depth review of the exhibition on Hyperallergic, June 2022.
– Selected for “Best Chicago Art Exhibitions of 2022” by the Chicago Tribune, December 2022.
