Original Thinkers
FESTIVAL GRAPHICS & SHOW MOTION GRAPHICS
Creative Direction: Stephen Rockwood
I also worked with the OT team to concept and build out ten individual motion graphics to play during the festival’s ten shows, featuring films, panels, speakers, and presentations around indivual themes and speaking points.
Each video played in full length or on loop on six separate projections around the room during 40 minute theater load-ins, enveloping the audience in distinct, experiential worlds.
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SHOW 1: A TORTOISE’S JOURNEY
Coversations on the unsustainable pace of human civilization and how certain individuals have overcome adversity in an ever-speeding up world. Three layers of video demonstrate varying paces of life and movement over the lifespan of a human.
Videos were projected in six different places, with three on each side and a main title screenwash up front to envelop the audience in each show’s visual world. Once the show began, screenwashes with names and textures helped audiences navigate who was on stage to speak.
︎︎︎ SHOW 3: MOTHER OF ALL ISSUES
A show around conversations and films on climate change, featuring artists, scientists, filmmakers, and activists.
Originally a 40 minute timelapse of an iceberg caving into itself as industry and pollution enter a pristine and remote part of the world, this video created a slow burn of devestating consequences of one of the most current controversial and pressing global issues.
(Video has been sped up for web viewing purposes.)
︎︎︎ SHOW 2: HUMANITY ENDURES
Stories and films centered around the indomitable spirit of people around the world. This video cycled through scenes of civilization and history, blending and overlaying images into one to portray common threads of perserverance and progress.
︎︎︎ SHOW 10: THE BIG IDEA
Bringing all speakers, presenters, and filmmakers from each prior show together to discuss connecting ideas and topics to leave audience members with a new and diverse perspectives.
The concept for this video was to create a slot machine of sorts to cycle through important objects of invention and innovation, giving the audience an array of combinations to form new ideas.