To Miss the Ending
In a dangerously colourful block world, this VR outlines a dark future where everyone’s consciousness has been uploaded to malfunctioning servers.
28'
UK
IFFR 2021
It is general knowledge that the Yanks dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima, but where did the uranium come from that gave it its power? From the Congo, explains this VR experience that takes you to the Shinkolobwe mine where Congolese miners excavate the radiation-rich material without protective equipment. This marks the start of a journey into deeply buried histories: alternatives to the optimistic, post-colonial Western perspectives.
Underground proves to be a memory palace of sorts – the various spaces providing contact with history. Grasping objects from that world gives rise to rich collages of archival materials, personal statements, dreams and memories. In this way, the work – a collaboration between historians from various African countries and creative makers – poses the question: what is the true toll of progress? Screens together with To Miss the Ending within VR: Liminal Spaces, Wed 2 to Sun 6 June, 09:45-22:00, WORM UBIK, €12.
Francois Knoetze, Amy Louise Wilson
IFFR 2021
In a dangerously colourful block world, this VR outlines a dark future where everyone’s consciousness has been uploaded to malfunctioning servers.
28'
UK
IFFR 2021
Programme IFFR 2021
An adventurous and multi-disciplinary section that expands the realm of cinema to installations, exhibitions and live performance.
Still: To Miss the Ending
Read more about this programmeFive people in wonderfully hand-painted dioramas tell their life stories. Where does the boundary between viewer and accomplice lie?
25'
Denmark
IFFR 2021
Two people examine a painting. They converse dryly about it, but their interior life reveals impetuous responses.
9'
Ireland
IFFR 2021
A memory palace full of deeply buried African history reveals itself in a Congolese uranium mine.
15'
South Africa
IFFR 2021