Slate 2023

ongoing

Arcadia: Scarce, unaffordable housing is not only a local problem in a few places, but is baked into the 21st-century global city. And thus the horrors of apartment hunting are something most big-city dwellers can relate to. Arcadia envisions The Circle scenario with an explosive Fight Club twist. Arcadia is a horror film with cutting commentary on the global housing crisis. Melting: Polish extreme mountaineer Wanda Rutkiewicz has been one of the leading women in alpine sports since the 1970s. She was the first European and the third woman in the world to reach the highest peak on earth, Mount Everest, in 1978. She had successfully climbed a total of eight of the 14 8-thousanders. In 1992 she did not return from the Kangchenjunga. A story of passion, ambition, perseverance. Ruins VR is a narrative, interactive VR odyssey, inspired by Johannesburg’s Ponte Tower. Searching their brother in a nightmarish version of the tower the players lives through surreal moments warped by survivor’s guilt. Murder Is Her Hobby is inspired by the incredible story of Frances Glessner Lee, who built 19 dollhouse style dioramas which represent real crime scenes, for the purpose of training the police force on crime scene investigations. Murder Is Her Hobby is a crime miniseries in spatial computing, exploring the surprising intersection between craft and forensic science. THE ART OF DISAPPEARANCE is a crime mystery series set in the arena of the European art world. When an internationally renowned artist disappears, rumours start to circulate that he never existed in the first place. But this makes no sense to the protagonist Molly because: He is her husband! We follow the lead as she tries to solve the mystery of her vanishing husband. This will be an exploration of the art business in an elevated reality.