‘Ngaa-nga jarkulparna kartinpa yulubidyi, Jarmukurnu Yaparlyikurnu mirda kujtu ngaryukuju parlparryikujanumpa, yuwa palya.
This story I carry is until the end, from our Grandfathers and Grandmothers; not just my story alone, for everyone, thank you.’
Nyarri Nyarri Morgan
Collisions (2016), a 15min immersive VR experience by acclaimed Australian filmmaker Lynette Wallworth, invites audiences on a journeyinvites audiences on a journey to the land of indigenous elder, Nyarri Nyarri Morgan and the Martu tribe in the remote Western Australian desert. In this thought-provoking, immersive virtual reality experience, Nyarri shares his story of the dramatic collision between his traditional world view and the extremes of western science and technology.
Nyarri Morgan’s first contact with western culture came when he witnessed an atomic test in the South Australian desert. Half a century later, another technology affords him the chance to show you the world that was ruptured that day.
At the invitation of Nyarri and the Martu tribe, Lynette Wallworth has sculpted an immersive virtual reality experience that places you at its story’s epicentre. From songs of the oldest surviving culture on the planet to drones soaring above the red desert, from projectors powered by car batteries to bombs that poison the land, this is a world that finds itself – again – teetering on a precipice of technological change that questions how we will steward it into the future.
Collisions is a multi award winning work including an International News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding New Approaches to Documentary 2017.
Collisions was developed through the inaugural Sundance New Frontier-Jaunt VR Residency and was commissioned to premiere at the World Economic Forum, Davos. In the following week it premiered at Sundance Festival, 2016.
Collisions was Produced by Nicole Newnham.
Collisions Production image, Piers Mussared.
About the Artist
Artist/filmmaker Lynette Wallworth is renowned for creating profoundly empathetic works while pushing the boundaries of emerging technologies. She works primarily in immersive environments including 360 film, virtual reality, interactive video, digital full dome and in feature documentary. Wallworth’s work has shown at the World Economic Forum, Davos, the Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts, the American Museum of Natural History, New York, the Smithsonian, the Royal Observatory Greenwich for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad; Auckland Triennial; Adelaide Biennial; Brighton Festival and the Vienna Festival among many others as well as film festivals including – Sundance Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, London Film Festival, IDFA, CPHDOX, Sydney Film Festival, Adelaide Film Festival and Margaret Mead Film Festival.
Lynette is currently one of the School of Cybernetics Imagination Residents.
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