HI and ESDiT Researchers Collaborate on dance film ‘Cobalt’
HI researcher and dancer Kim Baraka and ESDiT researcher Julia Rijssenbeek collaborated on Cobalt, a dance film / philosophical essay looking at the evolution of the relationship between humans and natural and artificial life forms. The movie was awarded Best Experimental Short at the European Short Film Festival, and has been selected for screening at several venues, including the InScience Film Festival and the Brainwash Festival.
Cobalt asks how human-nature-technology relationships developed over time through improvisational dance. Will humans learn to dance, to find a new way of moving among other life forms on this planet amidst the current environmental crisis? Dance is a language that can transcend cultural boundaries and even human-nature boundaries as movement is universal.
This project was supported by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK), Stichting Gilles Hondius Foundation, and ESDiT Research Programme.