STORY/SCRIPT/DIRECTION - Shu Lea Cheang
Producers - Jürgen Brüning & Shu Lea Cheang
Associate Producer - Alex Demetriou
IN THE CITY
In homage to Edward Hopper - Morning Sun (1952), Nighthawks (1942)
Produced in association with Amard Bird Films
| Assistant Director/Set Manager | Sonja Klümper |
| Director of Photography | Francy Fabritz |
| Assistant Camera | Micaela Masetto |
| Lighting Design/Gaffer | Janne Ebel |
| Electrician/Grip | Oscar Garcia |
| Rigging Grip | Thilda Kruschel |
| Production Design | Karin Betzler |
| Prop Master | Sophie Isabell Bremer |
| Prop Assistant | Spyros Patsouras (Sphoenix) |
| Set Construction | Tim Noll / Tim Herten / Merlin Andrae |
| Costume Designer | Alexis Mersmann |
| Assistant Costume Designers | Elfee Duquette / Anne-Marie Summer |
| Costume Design Intern | Melanie Parzenczewski |
| Make Up & Hair Artist | Nuria de Lario |
| Make Up & Hair Assistant | Cesar Plaza |
| Hair Design Consultant | Cristoni Florido Acosta |
| Production Sound Mixer | Marina Funck |
| Boom Operator | Vivien Cahn |
| Casting Director | Paula Alamillo Rodrigue |
| Casting Consultants | Aérea Negrot / Popo Fan |
| Digital Flow Manager | Alex Demetriou |
| Still Photography/Behind the Scenes | J. Jackie Baier |
| Continuity | Sofia Mattarollo |
| Production Assistant/Driver | Rouven Jolie |
| Catering | Federico Carrasco |
| HIVE DEVICES | Coquetta series by Ioana Vreme Moser |
| PRODUCTION STUDIO | Konsum Studio |
| ARRI ALEXA MINI | Kaminiak GmbH |
| LIGHTING EQUIPMENTS | a prima vista |
| DIGITAL PRINTS | Schein Berlin |
THE CONTINENT
Produced in association with
KARERON / Isabelle Arvers (France)
CNC DICRéAM development funds for an interruptive cinema (France)
SHEDHALLE / Thea Reifler & Philipp Bergmann (Zurich)
SINGAPORE ART MUSEUM / Lonely Vectors exhibition (Singapore)
LABOMEDIA/ANTRE PEAUX / régional du Centre-val de Loire residency (France)
| Production Design | Shu Lea Cheang |
| 3D Avatar/Set/Prop Design & Animation | Roland Lauth |
| Unity Cinemachine Artists | Xiyue Hu / Xing Xiao |
| 3D E-trash Build & Technical Director | Mathieu Marguerin |
| 3D Design Intern | Nico De Grandi |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
REIKO is a redundant IKU coder from GENOM Co. of I.K.U.
OZONE is inspired by artist Afrane Makof, Ghana.
S.O.B. (SOUL ON THE BEACH) are inspired by Kongo Astronauts collective (Éléonore Hellio & Michel Ekeba),
Maurice Mbikayi and a generation of African artists who make art and performance with electronic trash.
VIOLET, in memory of American performance artist Laurie Carlos.
REIKO’s robot arm, in homage to Stelarc’s body art practices.
STONE. In homage to SANDY STONE, author of The Empire Strikes Back:
A Posttranssexual Manifesto
STONE construct, in homage to Vuk Ćosić’s ASCII code art practice.
ELEKTRA is Elektra Wagenrad who engages in free wifi community network build.
XENO is Adriana Knouf of TRANXXENOLAB.
featuring her work Xenological Entanglements. 001b: Saccular Fount.
THE BIONET
Inspired by Grey Bear’s science fiction novel BLOOD MUSIC (1983)
Produced in association with
SEVEN ON SEVEN/Rhizome.org (New York)
UP PROJECTS / This is Public Space (London)
| 3D VISUAL DESIGN | Gonzalo Martín Martín |
| Archival Research | Alex Demetriou |
| BIOLAB archival films | PRELINGER ARCHIVES |
| Biological sciences consultants | Kate Adamala/University of Minnesota Barcelona Biomedical Research Park Reimund Fickert / Marc Güell / Anna Bigas / Oscar Fornas Lynn Margulis’ Symbiosis in Cell Evolution |
| Editor | Jörn Hartmann |
| Sound Mix | Jochen Voerste/Concept AV |
ORIGINAL STORY & SCREENPLAY
Shu Lea Cheang
Script Development (2017-2018) with Jacques Barbéri, Yves Ramonet
Script reader | advisor - Matthew Fuller
Bio-Scientists’ dialogue written by Kate Adamala
Dialogue consutlant - Jamika Ajalon
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Hangar (Barcelona, Spain), 2009
La Casa Encendida (Madrid, Spain), 2009
Medialab Prado (Madrid, Spain), 2010, 2011
LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Gijón, Spain), 2011
Imaginarium (Tourcoing, France), 2014
Bellagio Center, The Rockerfellor Foundation (Bellagio, Italy), 2022
SPECIAL THANKS TO Pedro Soler
The Development with Artists/Perfomers at Hangar in 2009
* Radíe Manssour * Idoia * Carolina* Patri * Quimera Yan * klau *
* Maria Mitsopoulou * Diana Pornoterrorista * Helen Lafloresta *
* Ceci Quimera * Melina Peña * Majo & Elena * Marianissima*
* Florian Tokioss * Agnese * Laika * Maria Llopis *
SOUND DESIGN & FOLEY ARTIST
Sky Deep
SOUND RESOUCES
Fragments of Angela Davis’ interviews & speeches
RADIOART AJ (Airwaves Jockey) by Tetsuo Kogawa
Beehive Recording Slovakia Barn by Bioni Samp
Elektron Syntakt, courtesy of Elektron Music Machines
MUSIC
MUSIC PRODUCER - Aérea Negrot
I.K.U. ORIGINAL MUSIC
Provocative Squats
Zoo Motels
Appleton
Freaks&Girls
At the Olympic
Confidential
Our Gender in Nirvana
To be jelly
Strip Teases
SABIA
All music composed and performed by Hoppy Kamiyama & The SABOTEN
Produced by Asai Takashi/Uplink Co. (Tokyo)
I.K.U. SOUND TRACK RE-MIX & LIVE JAM
Aérea Negrot, Royal Dust, Dennis Gundlach
UKI ORIGINAL MUSIC
The arrival - Royal Dust, Aérea Negrot
Dance of Eagle - Sainkho Namtchylak
Moment of Departure - Dennis Gundlach, Aérea Negrot
LEZ - Royal Dust , Aérea Negrot
Capuccini - Dennis Gundlach , Aérea Negrot
Fragment of a Degree & HIFAL - Selestra
Chocolate Rain - Tay Zonday
ANGELS of HOME STAY & SUPPORT
* Susanne Reiher * Malik Ben Brahim *
* Regine Rapp + Christian de Lutz + Emilia de Lutz *
* Thea Reifler + Philipp Bergmann *
* Pauline Montagne * Philipp Reichenheim * Bianca Kruk *
* Kathrin Günter * Martin Howse * Kaffe Matthews *
*João Carvalho * Oogo*
SPECIAL THANKS TO
* Asai Takashi * Tetsuo Kogawa * RADIOTOPIA * Franz Xaver * Rick Prelinger *
* Megan Shaw Prelinger * Christine Y. Kim * Michael Connor * Ryoma Ito * Anne-Cécile Worms * Nelson Irsapoullé * Florent Tolay * Odile Redolfi * Kenneth Tay * You Mi *
*Lili Hager * Mindy Seu * Zach Blas * Julia Kaganskiy * Benjamin Cadon * Isabelle Carlier * Sandra Emonet * David Legrand * Oliver Schenk * Susanne Borck Lüder *
* Susanne Schwarz * Phillip Kaminiak * Vervuurt * Tatiana Bazzichelli * Shari Frilot *
* Pilar Palacia *