Two filmmakers, Elena and Saitabao, take a Kenyan artifact from a German museum, produce a 3D scan and embark on a journey again to its roots. The one details about the item was that it entered the museum in 1903. Why don’t the museums know extra about it? European museum cellars are stuffed with African artifacts, they’re saved, imprisoned, handled with chemical substances – a lack of tradition. As a result of every of them has its personal story.
This movie takes you on a journey to search out solutions about this outdated object from the Kikuyu tribe. With a digital artwork set up of their package deal, Elena and Saitabao began a brand new dialog in regards to the problem of colonial belongings, id, worry and anger in Kenya.
The mission combines documentary movie and an AR set up. The mission follows two filmmakers, who take 3 Kenyan artifacts saved in a German museum cellar, produce 3D scans via an AR set up and embark on a journey to showcase the AR set up throughout communities in Kenya.
Baruu Collective is a manufacturing and artistic company based mostly in Kilifi, Kenya that goals to re-think and reimagine African narratives via cultural heritage vis multi-media platforms equivalent to movie, documentaries, comedian books, podcasts, and augmented and digital actuality.
