Vanitas portrays four, unemployed characters in the future: a singer, a what-naut, a gamer and an office building. Revolving around the characters’ observations, it wonders about the transient and often meaningless seeming nature of human activity.
The video was shot in an empty office building situated in the center of Rotterdam. It borrows from the genre of science fiction its aesthetic and narrative methods as tools to discuss on the relation of human lives to new technology and disappearance or redefinition of work, as well as timeless matters such as loneliness, alienation and mortality.
The dialogue is inspired by the real life of the video makers and actors, transferred into a fictive and speculative reality. Built on a loose script containing speech, singing and movement, the actors are asked to improvise based on given characters
The video was shot in an empty office building situated in the center of Rotterdam. It borrows from the genre of science fiction its aesthetic and narrative methods as tools to discuss on the relation of human lives to new technology and disappearance or redefinition of work, as well as timeless matters such as loneliness, alienation and mortality.
The dialogue is inspired by the real life of the video makers and actors, transferred into a fictive and speculative reality. Built on a loose script containing speech, singing and movement, the actors are asked to improvise based on given characters
Vanitas
in collaboration with Anni Puolakka
HD video, 17 min 38 sec, 2021
Cast: Olivia Le Roux, Raluca Croitoru, Teddy Coste
Soundtrack by Miša Skalskis
Supported by AVEK and Kone Foundation
in collaboration with Anni Puolakka
HD video, 17 min 38 sec, 2021
Cast: Olivia Le Roux, Raluca Croitoru, Teddy Coste
Soundtrack by Miša Skalskis
Supported by AVEK and Kone Foundation