Whakapapa/Algorithms

Whakapapa/Algorithms
Title Whakapapa/Algorithms
English title Whakapapa/Algorithms
Director Jamie Berry
Country New Zealand
Year 2021
Color Colour
Genre Experimental, Animation, Documentary
Duration 00:22:01
Festival year 2022
Competitions International Competition
Online rental No
On-Site rental No

Taking original video footage of whanau (family) and whenua (land), New Zealand Māori artist Jamie Berry overlays digital patterns and motifs to interweave past and present. The soundtrack is generated using the artist’s DNA as a score. Berry’s layering of image and sound presents an indigenous worldview of collective wellbeing and ‘whakapapa’, a Māori concept that celebrates connections with land and people across time.