LOVE LETTERS
GREENPEACE / XENOPHILE
Client: Greenpeace
Agency: Xenophile Media
Agency CD: Thomas Wallner
Production Company: Tendril Design+Animation Inc.
Director Live Action: Ian McDonald
Director Design: Chris Bahry, Alexandre Torres
Music & Sound Design: Cypheraudio
Director of Photography: Duraid Munajim
Editor: Joe Cunningham
2D/3D Artists: Chris Bahry, Leo Mateus,
Alexandre Torres
Compositors: Chris Bahry, Leo Mateus
In late 2009, with the Copenhagen climate summit just around the corner, we were approached by writer/director Ian McDonald to collaborate on a series of story fragments. Commissioned by Greenpeace, the work was created in conjunction with the Love Letters to The Future initiative, and clues as to the whereabouts of the fragments were hidden in the Love Letters website.
The message fragments (some of which you can see cut together in the short montage above) were each part of a longer transmission from 'Maya', a young woman from the near future who has used her technology to try and tell us about how she lives and what has happened to the earth in the 100 or so years since the present.
All the footage of Maya was shot on a Canon 5D in locations around Toronto. The final scene and stairwell scenes were shot on the rooftop of the Royal York hotel, which was littered with tiny bird bones (turns out it's a favourite spot for hawks and other prey birds to bring their kills). The 5D material was combined and cut together with Greenpeace archive material and news footage to create the final effect.
The distopian 'eye in pyramid' motif is the emblem of the multi-national, corporate, government body that tries to block Maya's transmission. The motto reads 'Vivo, Amo, Devoro' (Live, Love, Consume).
CREDITS
Client: Greenpeace
Agency: Xenophile Media
Agency CD: Thomas Wallner
Production Company: Tendril Design+Animation Inc.
Director Live Action: Ian McDonald
Director Design: Chris Bahry, Alexandre Torres
Music & Sound Design: Cypheraudio
Director of Photography: Duraid Munajim
Editor: Joe Cunningham
2D/3D Artists: Chris Bahry, Leo Mateus,
Alexandre Torres
Compositors: Chris Bahry, Leo Mateus
ABOUT
In late 2009, with the Copenhagen climate summit just around the corner, we were approached by writer/director Ian McDonald to collaborate on a series of story fragments. Commissioned by Greenpeace, the work was created in conjunction with the Love Letters to The Future initiative, and clues as to the whereabouts of the fragments were hidden in the Love Letters website.
The message fragments (some of which you can see cut together in the short montage above) were each part of a longer transmission from 'Maya', a young woman from the near future who has used her technology to try and tell us about how she lives and what has happened to the earth in the 100 or so years since the present.
All the footage of Maya was shot on a Canon 5D in locations around Toronto. The final scene and stairwell scenes were shot on the rooftop of the Royal York hotel, which was littered with tiny bird bones (turns out it's a favourite spot for hawks and other prey birds to bring their kills). The 5D material was combined and cut together with Greenpeace archive material and news footage to create the final effect.
The distopian 'eye in pyramid' motif is the emblem of the multi-national, corporate, government body that tries to block Maya's transmission. The motto reads 'Vivo, Amo, Devoro' (Live, Love, Consume).
STILLS