REMOTE EMBODIMENT

Experimental Dance Fashion Video, HD, 8 minutes, 2016

Synopsis

The medical and empathic potential of wearable technology is explored, as strangers interact through the common language of dance, remote embodiment and the integrated circuit. The story follows Alice, a cyborg, as she encounters an array of different people on her path towards becoming human.

Remote Embodiment was produced in association with filmmaker Danièle Wilmouth and fashion designer Anke Loh, with music by Ryoji Ikeda. Featuring the Chicago dancers Alice Klock, Jacqueline Burnett, Emilie Leriche, the film was choreographed by Terence Marling.

The LED jewelry featured in Remote Embodiment was developed through a research collaboration with Anke Loh together with Stretchable Circuits GbR and the Fraunhofer Institute Berlin, Germany.

CREDITS

Producers Anke Loh & Danièle Wilmouth

Director Danièle Wilmouth

Jewelry Design & Styling Anke Loh

Choreographer Terence Marling

Music Ryoji Ikeda

Cyborg Dancers Alice Klock

Emilie Leriche

Jacqueline Burnett

Performers Roberto Sifuentes

Aram Han-Sifuentes

Camille Arnold

Donald Yoshida

Holly Birnbaum

Mark Birnbaum

CREW

Cinematographer Sanghoon Lee

Production Manager / First Assistant Director Allana Williams

Second Assistant Director / Assistant to Anke Loh Sophie Loloi

Assistant Choreographer Alice Klock

Editors & Sound Design Jeff Nolan & Lucas Seibel / Nolan Collaborative

Assistant Camera Nancy Valladares

Gaffer Allison Cayo

Grip & Second Assistant Camera Danielle Lathrop

Grip & Art Department PA Samantha Grad

Location Sound Mixer/Boom Chen Chenyu

Location Sound Mixer/Boom Shen Yuan Su

Grip Yomi Adekahunsi

Craft Services Morgan Cravenho

Still Photography Morgan Cravenho

Hair Agnes Doyle

Makeup Nicole Rizzo

Post-production Intern Mika Sakai

THANK YOU

Aveda, The Valladares Family, Hennie and Andreas Reynders, Rose Picchietti at Red Hen Bread

Laura Lamb & the Leroy Neiman Center at SAIC, The world famous Media Center at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Remote Embodiment was made possible with the generous support of the Sage Foundation.

LED Jewelry created in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration in Berlin.