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As the world becomes more mechanized and inches closer toward a cyborg society, visionary artists collect and reconnect with discarded materials to preserve the history of humanity through their art. Long after life on Earth has been obliterated, space travelers attempt to deconstruct the fossil artifacts they discover to understand what happened to human civilization – in the hope they can rekindle life on Earth.
Isa “Rémie” Theisen
Writer, Producer, Director, and Editor
Luis Bohorquez
Cinematographer, VFX Artist, and Post-Production Supervisor
Joe Stone
Camera Operator, Lead CGI Artist, and Compositor
Gary Freitas
The Electronic Alchemist, is the Featured Artist in the First Episode of the Series
Filmmaker, Isa “Rémie” Theisen, believes that there has never been a more urgent time to make this documentary series. In her professional life as a cybersecurity professional, Rémie has seen how mechanization has become more complex and pervasive with the rapid advance of artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and supercomputers.
Mechanization is fueling greater conflict throughout the world with the deployment of more destructive weapons. Mechanization is harvesting our natural resources faster than ever before in even the most remote places of our planet.
With mechanization, all that we create, in any shape and form, becomes obsolescent in a nanosecond, before our human brain has time to make meaning of these creations, except one of immediate self-gratification.
Rémie, like many other people she works with, can feel it in her bones: we, humans, are becoming more and more obsolete through this mechanization. Our logical mind understands that mechanization has the potential to make the world roll better and solve any problems thrown in our path – but deep inside, there is this deep-seated fear that, along the way, we are losing our humanity.
Rémie’s vision with Tales of Transformation is to create a documentary series wrapped around a science-fiction narrative that will feature 24 artists over three or four seasons. Each episode will focus on artists who have taken it upon themselves to create beauty out of the discards from our mechanization – and in the process attempt to keep all of us relevant by preserving our heart and soul. At the same time, each episode will tell us more about the quest of the space travelers and their evolution as they discover the human discards of our civilization.
The narrative is from the perspective of space travelers who, eons from now, arrive to Earth where they discover time capsules containing art pieces made of discarded materials. From these artifacts, these space travelers discover who we were as humans, what we became, why and how we fell into oblivion. Along the way, these space travelers discover how they themselves can rekindle their lost humanity and shed off their cyborg form – coming full circle to recreate life on Earth – hoping to avoid a similar fate in the future.
The first three episodes of Tales of Transformation will be combined together to form a full-length documentary that will launch the platform for the series. These three episodes will establish the core themes of the documentary series through the work of three visionary artists. The links to these themes revolve around our constantly wired lives, the robotic weapons that relentlessly wage wars, and the ever-expanding cities and industries over nature. As we follow each artist’s creative process, the episodes will be intercut with reflections from sociologists, scientists, and anthropologists, experts in their field whose knowledge will help bring a new layer of interpretation to the art.
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