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Future Botanica
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Future Botanica

Marcel van Brakel, Hazal Ertürkan
Netherlands
2024
World Premiere
Synopsis

The idea that nature and technology are incompatible is outdated. Nature is full of cultivated elements introduced to serve the needs of human beings. The nature around us is subjected to -isms such as anthropocentrism, colonialism and capitalism.

Add to this new technological systems such as AI and robotics, from which autonomous entities emerge that will probably also merge with nature, and an infinite number of possible future scenarios unfold.

These speculations are the subject of the innovative augmented reality app Future Botanica, which features in an installation during IDFA. The app allows the user to design ecosystems with new nature using an AI.

These virtual ecosystems are then planted in existing physical nature: you superimpose digital designs—one of the proposed scenarios or one you make yourself—on existing landscapes. By making your imaginings visible, you can safely explore ideas, expectations, fears and desires regarding the future of the natural environment.

Winner of the Film Fund DocLab Interactive Grant 2024.

Future Botanica will be co-presented for the first time by MU and IDFA DocLab in Eindhoven and Amsterdam.
19 October-10 November at MU Hybrid Art House, Eindhoven
15-24 November at IDFA DocLab, Amsterdam

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Credits
0 min
Spoken languages: Dutch, English
Director
    Marcel van Brakel,
    Hazal Ertürkan
    Marcel van Brakel,
    Hazal Ertürkan
Created by
    POLYMORF,
    Studio Bleu
    POLYMORF,
    Studio Bleu
Production
    Marcel van Brakel
    Marcel van Brakel
Co-production
    Studio Biarritz
    Studio Biarritz
Executive producer
    Corine Meijers
    Corine Meijers
Animation
    Hauke Boer,
    Ashley Haagsma
    Hauke Boer,
    Ashley Haagsma
Sound Design
    Mark Meeuwenoord
    Mark Meeuwenoord
World Sales
    Marieke Nooren
    Marieke Nooren
Distribution for the Netherlands
    Marcel van Brakel
    Marcel van Brakel
Screening copy
    Marcel van Brakel
    Marcel van Brakel
Key collaborator
    MU Hybrid Art House
    MU Hybrid Art House
Designer
    Daniel Maarleveld
    Daniel Maarleveld
Developer
    Lucianno Pinna,
    Daan Hobbel
    Lucianno Pinna,
    Daan Hobbel
Technical artist
    Sacha Holzken
    Sacha Holzken

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