Seance (Necromancy)
Documentarist VR performance
Time travel allows us not only to look into the mirror of our past, but to face our contemporary problems.
WHEN?
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Necromancy is about subversive imagination, realized as an immersive VR-performance, about young artist, whose work was banned by the state in the seventies, and who wanted to dream up an alternate reality for themselves through artistic work. For how long is it possible to create a separate universe under a dictatorship? If we must leave our home country as refugees, can we connect to other cultures?
Contributors
Director, Writer: Kristóf KELEMEN (https://kristofkelemen.com/)
With: Dániel BAKI, Chengjunyan ZHOU, Kristóf KELEMEN, Gabriella SCHULLER
Voice (Hungarian): Nóra Blanka BERÉNYI
Voice (English): Anna THIESER
Cameraman, Editor: Nimród NYÚL / New Reflection Films
Music: Márton KRISTÓF
Lighting Technician: Balázs SZABON
Field Management: Panka SÁNDOR
Makeup: Krisztina BÉRES
VR Consultant: Fanni FAZAKAS
Visual Consultant: Virág PÁZMÁNY
English translation: Gabriella GÁL
Assistant Director: Anita TOTOBÉ
Tour Management: Panka SÁNDOR
Production Manager: Andrea KOVÁCS
Produced by: Veszprém-Balaton 2023 – European Capital of Culture, Babel Camp
In collaboration with: Füge Productions
Creative Management: Let it Be! art agency
Special thanks: SzM – KEMKI, Artpool Art Research Center (https://artpool.hu/), Kultkikötő, Hungarian Theatre Museum and Institute, Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security, Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport, Klára CSERNE, Ágnes Karolina BAKK, Chengjunyan ZHOU, Sára UNGVÁRI, Gabriella SCHULLER (Museum of Fine Arts Budapest – KEMKI – Artpool Art Research Center), László SZÁZADOS (Museum of Fine Arts Budapest – KEMKI – ADK)