Projects · Case study

Origines Genesis

Rome · 2022 · Audiovisual work

A research work born from a proposal by director Amir RA and produced by Field A1: identity told through water, earth, fire, and matter in transformation.

Origines Genesis, a silhouette on the red set
The context

Origines Genesis began as a proposal from director Amir RA. It came to us without a client, and we chose to produce it ourselves, because it was the right home for the questions that find no room in commissioned work.

The subject is the search for identity: what remains of a person when the outlines are taken away. We chose to approach it through elemental metaphors: water, earth, fire, matter in transformation. They are the only images that work the same way in every language.

What we did

The work transforms inner fragility into vital energy, following a path from dissolution to recomposition. It is built entirely in 3D, with long, patient work on simulations of natural elements and their deformation.

Technically, it is the project where we tested the things that later found their way elsewhere: simulation methods, compositing techniques, a way of handling black and light that we now use in our architectural mapping work. That is what research is for: not making pretty pictures, but building tools that then move into production.

The versions produced cover different formats, from large panoramic to vertical, precisely because the work was born to be adapted to surfaces that are not screens.

The outcome

It is the work we show when someone wants to understand how we think, before what we can do. The techniques developed here flowed into the commissioned projects of the years that followed.

Official selection · "Genesis"
Sedicicorto International Film FestivalItalia Darkroom FestivalRegno Unito Rome Independent Film FestivalItalia Brussels International Film FestivalBelgio Košice International Film FestivalSlovacchia
Gallery
Origines Genesis, a silhouette on the red set
Origines Genesis, a face
Origines Genesis, the blue set with the dancers
Origines Genesis, the white veil