Carlo Van de Roer collaborates with Taika Waititi on Toru
Produced by CASEY for Cartier’s ‘Trinity’ ring collection, the project was inspired by the significance of Tokotoru, the Māori triad of earth, sea, and sky.
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Director Carlo Van de Roer collaborated with fellow New Zealander Taika Waititi on Toru, an art installation opening in the West Bund Art Center in Shanghai and travelling around the globe later this year.
Produced by CASEY for Cartier’s ‘Trinity’ ring collection, the project was inspired by the significance of Tokotoru, the Māori triad of earth, sea, and sky.
The installation features a three-channel video starring Taika Waititi alongside singer-songwriter Rita Ora. Their electrifying performance weaves together elements of Māori mythology, including the myth of Tane, the Māori god of the forest who retrieved three baskets of knowledge, the basket of light, the basket of darkness, and the basket of pursuit.
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Credits
powered by
- Production Company CASEY
- Director Carlo Van De Roer
- Executive Producer Patrick C Casey / (Executive Producer)
- Director Taika Waititi
- Talent Rita Ora
- Talent Taika Waititi
Credits
powered by
- Production Company CASEY
- Director Carlo Van De Roer
- Executive Producer Patrick C Casey / (Executive Producer)
- Director Taika Waititi
- Talent Rita Ora
- Talent Taika Waititi
Each film operates as a different recollection, or interpretation, of the same performance. A new filmmaking approach called PlateLight enabled the filmmakers to capture the same moment with different lighting conditions as separate pieces of footage. The result are three versions of the same film, presenting an accurate record of the past that is fluid like memory, authorable like myth.
PlateLight was developed by Satellite-Lab, an R&D studio co-founded by Van de Roer and Stuart Rutherford at the New Museum to develop new in-camera based film-making technology. The technologies have been used in several CASEY productions for clients such as Lexus, Meta, Nike, Samsung, La Mer, The North Face, Dolby, LG and Microsoft.
As an in-camera approach, they allow Van de Roer to create without the need of Al or CGI; in fact, achieving the relighting flexibility Al is currently striving to provide, while maintaining the integrity of a real performance and real lighting. The visual language embraces both photographic accuracy and plasticity, while enabling the filmmakers to control lighting after the film has been captured.
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Toru draws inspiration from the embrace of art and technology of the Light and Space movement of Southern California. The set was designed to present a changeable representation of space and materiality through lighting, and the project was shot not far from where Robert Irwin and James Turrell experimented with the perception of space through light.
The filmmaking technology used to create three films of the same exact performance is a brand-new approach patented by the team at Satellite Lab. In a physical space, the films are presented on three screens as a triptych. Online, the work is presented as an interactive video that lets the viewer control the lighting through clicking. You can check out the link here.
The project is one of a series of collaborations between Carlo Van de Roer and Taika Waititi. Satellite Lab technology was also used in key scenes for the Marvel features Thor: Ragnarok and Thor: Love and Thunder.
Carlo Van de Roer and Satellite Lab are represented by the production company CASEY, whose roster features several filmmakers working with state-of-the-art technology such as Cokau, Favourite Colour: Black, and Mads Perch.
