About
Title
NEW PEOPLE
Intro
NEW PEOPLE is poetic storytelling as entrance to research dissemination: Imagination and storytelling is used as catalyst for humans as moving beings, with Inuit as case.
A research team led by Eske Willerslev sequenced the genome of a 4,000-year-old man from the Saqqaq culture of Greenland from his hair. This was the first ancient human genome to be sequenced ever. With a story from Knud Rasmussens expeditions to Greenland, “New People”, as the striking of the theme, the film gives a possible answer for why the man moved and a reflection on human migration, humans force of imagination and what leads us to move – as imagination creates realities!
Exhibition of NEW PEOPLE
The film was created for the purpose of being able to both be video mapped onto a scenography in exhibition contexts and function as a regular film screening.
NEW PEOPLE was screened in 2019 at three venues: the National Museum of Denmark, in Copnehagen, at Viborg Animation Festival and at Nuuk Nordic Culture Festival.
The first screening took place at The National Museum of Denmark followed by a dialog-session between Tor Nørretranders and Eske Willerslev, happening on the 21st of September 2019, aimed at the public audience.
The second screening took place at the Sci-Vi Conference during Viborg Animation Festival, happening on the 27th of September 2019, aiming at an audience of researchers and visual storytellers.
The third screening took place during Nuuk Nordic Culture Festival on the 8th of October 2019, Nuuk. It was followed by a dialog-session, performed by Film director Steen Rasmussen, Sia Søndergaard and children of the future. The target group was the public, children and young people.
Furthermore, NEW PEOPLE was nominated in the animation-program at Odense Film Festival 2020.
A Danish version can be viewed at: https://offstream.dk/play/685
CREDITS
Researcher: Eske Willerslev, Professor and director at Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum/University of Copenhagen
Visual Artist: Cosimo Miorelli
Producer: Sia Søndergaard
Directors and manus: Steen Rasmussen and Sia Søndergaard
Sound: Thomas Richard/Audiogangsters
Voice Over: Ian Burns (UK version), Steen Rasmussen (DK version), Klaus Geisler (Greenlandic version)
Song Voice: Ellen Holck
Pre-Production: Storm Søndergaard
Cameraman: Aleksander Hørup
Art direction for scenography and video mapping: Lasse Andersen/Darkmatters
Host at venues: Tor Nørretranders, Science writer
Supported by: The Animation Workshop/VIA UC, Viborg Municipality and Ministry of Higher Education and Science
