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Drift
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Drift

Nienke Huitenga, Hay Kranen, Lieven Heeremans
Netherlands
2024
750 min
World Premiere
IDFA DocLab Program & Competition, IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling
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Synopsis

It’s 2024, or—time doesn’t actually matter so much—2529: an octopus as narrator, old dikes that once formed the contours of land. In a generative audio experience, a podcast that is not a podcast, Drift connects rising sea levels and the climate crisis to the rise of AI.

This story world combines the imaginary with factual sources, such as the IPCC climate report and real-time weather forecasts by the Dutch meteorological institute. In a distant future, society has learned hard lessons from environmental neglect. Due to pollution and rising sea levels, the Netherlands, such as it once was, no longer exists. The waters have now been injected with AI. A techno-liquid environment serves as a living repository of knowledge, merging ancient wisdom with futuristic insights.

The pace and rhythm of the story are synchronized with the lunar phases and the tides, moving away from the rigid mechanical clock that dictates human life, and back to the way Mother Earth intended. Technology and nature combine to create a new reality that the listener can drift through.

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Credits
750 min
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Spoken languages: English
Director
    Nienke Huitenga,
    Hay Kranen,
    Lieven Heeremans
    Nienke Huitenga,
    Hay Kranen,
    Lieven Heeremans
Production
    Studio ZZZAP
    Studio ZZZAP
Co-production
    Abel Enklaar for VPRO Medialab
    Abel Enklaar for VPRO Medialab
Executive producer
    Nienke Huitenga for Studio ZZZAP
    Nienke Huitenga for Studio ZZZAP
Editing
    Lieven Heeremans
    Lieven Heeremans
Sound Design
    Mark IJzerman,
    Lieven Heeremans
    Mark IJzerman,
    Lieven Heeremans
Music
    Mark IJzerman,
    Suzie Hagens
    Mark IJzerman,
    Suzie Hagens
Screenplay
    Minem Sezgin
    Minem Sezgin
Narrator
    Shana Bossmann
    Shana Bossmann
Involved TV Channel
    VPRO
    VPRO
World Sales
    Nienke Huitenga for Studio ZZZAP
    Nienke Huitenga for Studio ZZZAP
Distribution for the Netherlands
    Abel Enklaar for VPRO Medialab
    Abel Enklaar for VPRO Medialab
Screening copy
    Nienke Huitenga for Studio ZZZAP
    Nienke Huitenga for Studio ZZZAP
Developer
    Hay Kranen
    Hay Kranen
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