Qualia – You Matter to Me
(c) Isabelle Duverger
“Qualia – You Matter to Me” is a film for immersive cinematic installation about our longing for connection, through consciousness, nature, symbolism, and hope. The gaze is a visual poem, gravitational Qualia: a raw feel, anxiety shaped into surrealism, mythology, a nightmare turned fantasy, spontaneous solidarity, feelings of solitude, suspension, an embrace, the beginning of a smile, a hand falling and rising again, time and the fates symbolizing the interconnectedness of the past, present, and future in the tapestry of life.
The directors
Laia Cabrera
Laia Cabrera is an award-winning filmmaker and video artist based in New York, working in the fields of art Installations-new cinema. Her wide range of artworks, from traditional and experimental filmmaking, visual poetry, interactive art and immersive projection mapping installations, has been commissioned by major institutions and presented worldwide in leading venues, art galleries and festivals. Identity and consciousness have been constant themes in her work, exploring concepts of otherness, symbolism, and hope, the art of seeing and the nature of belonging.
Isabelle Duverger
Isabelle Duverger is an award-winning French painter and installation artist based in New York. Her work includes paintings, public art, immersive interactive video installations, video-art and animation. Her work is focused on the relationship between emotions and body language, the observation of patterns, imaginary landscapes and how the human presence interacts in it, and the pursuit of new languages through technology.
General Informations
Directors : Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger
Original Music composed and arranged by Nana Simopoulos
Songs by Erica Glyn
Featuring performing artist Catherine Correa
Production Company : Isabelle Duverger (France) and Laia Cabrera (Spain-USA)
Year of creation : 2023
Awards : Individual Artist Fellowship program provided by the Jersey City Arts Council and the Jersey City Arts & Culture Trust Fund
Minimum Age : No minimum
English Subtitles
Technical Informations
Format : Multi-Stream (site-specific immersive art installation)
Duration : 10 minutes 18 secondes
Number of participants per session : Unlimited
Site specific : Aspect ratio of three 16 x 9 / One flat long wall of an aspect ratio of 48 x 9 or two walls, one long, one short / Three walls immersive
The minimum size of the space would need to be of 5 x 5 m to allow a full immersion.
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