As of October 2, 2023
Strata: A Performance of Topography
A live-edited documentary performance that traverses a vast terrain without leaving a tiny patch of land.
Strata is a live-edited, improvisational documentary performance. Each iteration is a unique call and response between a virtual landscape with documentary audio and live-edited footage. Strata is part of the multi-format documentary project, Topography, which is an ongoing collaboration between Alexander Porter and Hannah Jayanti.
Set in a small 3D scanned region of the Badlands of South Dakota, viewers piece together a chorus of diverse perspectives while performers construct it live. Voices carry you from paleontology to foraging, wildlife management to nuclear arms and geopolitics, and indigenous herbalism to cattle ranching. Strata layers histories, economics, natural sciences, deep time, and personal anecdotes within a unique immersive landscape that invites you into a meditation on the complex histories embedded in all lands and how profoundly human perspectives shape and define its future.
The Strata live performance has been shown at Transmediale (Berlin, Germany, 2023), Camden International Film Festival (Maine, USA, 2023), Plasmata (Ioannina, Greece, 2023), First Look at the Museum of the Moving Image (Queens, NY, 2021).
Director, Producer, Performer: Alexander Porter, Hannah Jayanti
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