USA
2023
14'
Summary
4993 Feet Under” is an innovative exploration of the intersection between cinema and real-time technology. Utilizing a hybrid documentary approach to depict the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. This spectacle chronicles the entire life cycle of a Whale Fall. Audiences embark on a poignant journey, witnessing the final moments of a dying humpback whale descending 4993 feet below the surface, where the Macondo Wellhead's oil leak occurred. Savage, exquisite, and poetic, the experience forms an elegy for the lives lost and shaken by the largest marine oil spill in history. Production : Ina Chen, Calvin Sin
Galerie
Suyang (Ina) Chen
Director
Ina is a Multicultural Experience Designer. Her works leverage cutting-edge technology in the creative process to construct worlds that tell untold stories. She explores speculative cultural scenarios and alternative fictions using tools that range from real time game engine, CGI and immersive media. Currently Ina is part of the Year 9 incubator cohort with NEW INC & NEW MUSEUM, with a focus on Extended Reality & XR track.
With a background in Architecture and Filmmaking, and growing up in a diverse environment, Ina gained strong interests in Philosophy, Music and History. Current age of the technosphere evokes her urge to speculate alternative phenomenons in the work. Forms of storytelling have unlimited potential and possibilities, Ina tends to work with real-time medium to narrate cultural stories with creative technology.