Breathe

MIXED-REALITY INSTALLATION Magic Leap (12min)
DIRECTOR, PRODUCER

Develop in a residency at Phi Centre (Montreal, Canada), and at Johns Hopkins ISET Concentration in Baltimore as part of the Sundance Future of Culture Initiative. BREATHE is a co-creation with Phi-Centre, Jess Engel Crimes of Curiosity (USA) and Stephen Mangiat. Narrated by Zazie Beetz, the project premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2020 at the New Frontier program.

A central challenge for humanity is to re-image our relationship to the rest of the living world. Breathe is a mixed-reality experience that uses body movement, gesture, and breath (through biometric sensors) to immerse participants in the story of air. Breathe invites you to experience an atmosphere of your own creation, recasting your ordinary daily experience of breathing as an immediate direct link to the complex living world we inhabit. It harnesses the power of Magic Leap technology to reconnect us to the world around us.

Tour

March-September 2021 Phi-Centre, Montreal

Our global breath

How does the air you breathe will travel across the planet? Based on actual weather data between 1-22 March 2021, this visualization shows a breath taken in Montreal and travelling across the northern hemisphere in just about 21 days.

Simulation by Sabine Eckhardt at NILU