Welcome to Battlescar – a three-part animated VR film series of 30 minutes, where you dive into the grungy punk world of two teenage runaways: Lupe, voiced by Rosario Dawson, a Puerto-Rican American 16-year-old, and Debbie, a badass with a mysterious past. Lupe needs a home, Debbie wants someone who “gets her,” and together they will form a punk band and take on the city.
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BATTLESCAR follows the life of 16-year-old Lupe, a Puerto Rican-American teenager living in late 1970’s New York City. Lupe’s handwritten journal guides us through her experiences as she meets Debbie, another runaway kid living in the city.
Carried by two strong female characters, the story exudes the energy of New York punk-rock – fast and harsh, loaded with anti-authoritarian ideology and political messages, expressing a young rebellion characterized by the main characters independent and determined attitudes.
BattleScar is a coming of age drama that explores the theme of identity through the use of animation and immersive envi- ronments in virtual reality.
It on January 13th 2018, 1.4m people across Hawai’i received an SMS from the state’s Emergency Management Agency: BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
In the minutes that followed, they were forced to confront existential questions that had been unthinkable just moments before: where could they go for shelter? What would remain of their communities if they survived a nuclear blast? How could they explain to their children why we live in a world where such unimaginable destruction was possible? And how could their own Government continue to pursue nuclear policies that threaten the entire global population every day?
By the time FEMA managed to retract the incorrect warning message, it was too late to pretend that normality would resume. Their collective experience had laid bare the growing threat that nuclear weapons pose to the world. In the words of Kauai resident Cynthia Lazaroff, ‘Nothing happened, but everything changed’.
While bombs rain on Iran, a deeply needed empathetic experience.
Less than 5 gr of Saffron tackles a subject we think we’ve already seen too much of : the often tragic circumstances under which many migrants flee their home countries in search of a better future. A hundred times, stories of shipwrecks, a hundred times the numbers of those drowned at any given moment have filled our screens, anonymous people who disappear from our memories with a snap of the fingers.
Yet Negar’s uniquely intimate approach touches something deeply personal within us. She evokes our capacity to identify profoundly with a survivor by placing her in a universally familiar, everyday situation—preparing a meal. What might seem trivial becomes essential: can one relive trauma to awaken to a new life?
Negar turns our attention to the aftermath, to the moment when safety is finally achieved, and one can permit oneself to exist without fear. Throughout this authentic immersion, it is her protagonist, Golnaz, who guides us toward self-reflection. Our proximity to Golnaz is absolute: we experience almost everything through her perspective as she cooks (we become Golnaz!), and step by step, as the recipe unfolds, we are overwhelmed alongside her by the resurgence of trauma.
MARTIN ALLAIS is a visual artist, illustrator, animator and director. Experimentation, freshness and playfulness are key elements in his work, which strongly reflects in his finished pieces. He co-founded the collective No-Domain, directing commercials for brands like Heineken, Seat and G4 Channel, among others. Whilst Martin was part of No-Domain, the New York based production company, Blacklist, Part of Psyop Inc, represented the collective. Psyop is a multi-awarded production company, and creators of iconic commercials such as Coca Cola’s Happy Factory Campaign and Crow for MTV. Martin has participated in international events like Designmai (Berlin), Sperm (Prague), Mapping (Genève) and Sonar Festival Barcelona (editions of 2004 to 2007), touring with the festival as the official video performer.
NICO CASAVECCHIA is an Argentinian director, screenwriter and illustrator based in Brooklyn. His work employs mixed-media techniques ranging from animation to live action. His first feature film Finding Sofía, a live action narrative film, premiered at the Austin Film Festival in 2016. Nico directed A Boy and His Atom (2013), a stop-motion animated short film created by IBM Research scientists. It was made by moving carbon monoxide molecules, and is recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s smallest stop-motion film. Nico’s work has been showcased in festivals like Sundance, SXSW, BAFICI, Siggraph, Viedram (Rome), Holland Film Festival, Ars Electronica, among others, and has collected Gold & Bronze statues in Cannes, Clio, AICP, and London LIA awards.
JORGE TERESO is a director & digital artist from Buenos aires. His work ranges from playful and lysergic animations to realistic VR experiences and interactive installations. He’s a partner at 3dar studios, where he created its first award winning short film, Shave It (2013).
Since then he’s been creating 3dar’s original content, always in search of new ways to expand the possibilities of animation.
Written and directed by
Nico Casavecchia & Martin Allais
Story by
Nico Casavecchia & Mercedes Arturo
Narrted by
Rosario Dawson (EN), Jehnny Beth (FR), Lo Rivera (DE)
Studio
Albyon
Sound studio
Antfood
A production of
Atlas V, 1STAveMachine (UK)
In co-production with
Arte France, Oculus, Ryot
In association with
Kaleidoscope
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