Chronicle of a Fall
Immersive documentary video installation, 2022, ~40 min
ABOVE: trailer for the project including installation documentation and video excerpts
Chronicle of a Fall is an immersive experimental documentary co-created with Tirtza Even. 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?”.
For more information and an installation walkthrough, visit Chronicleofafall.org.
An in-depth review of the project was published on Hyperallergic, June 2022.
Selected for “Best Chicago Art Exhibitions of 2022” by the Chicago Tribune, Dec 2022.
BELOW: 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.
