Takeoff
Takeoff is a meditation on dreams as means of escapism. It is a visual
interpretation of the poem, where the protagonist describes the first
time he took off - ran away to the limitless world of fantasy, rejecting
the absurdity of suffering.
This work is a part of the Urban Travel Machines project - a
collaboration between three schools of arts and four planetaria with the
goal of contributing to the renewal of the literary sector in Europe
through the adoption of immersive technology.
The work has been presented in the Prima Vista Literary Festival as an
immersive slam poetry performance in the planetarium in Tartu, Estonia,
and at the Brussels Planetarium Poetry fest 2024, in Brussels, Belgium.
The cinema version of the work has been presented in
ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival 2023 and awarded the Kinomural 2023 Open Call
prize.
More information about UTM and the poetry festival in Brussels can be found here and here.
Realized with the support of the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) and co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
Poem:
Giovanni Baudonck
Visuals:
Hanna-Katri Eskelinen
Calvin Guillot
Margo Nowicka