from the edge of the underworld by simran sachar
The Edge of the Underworld
Wednesday November 13 @ 7pm - 8:30pm PST
Location: Emily Carr Integrated Motion Studio (Wilson Plaza entrance)
Content warning: deals with mature subject matter around alcohol use
This event is free to attend!
F-O-R-M, along with Emily Carr University’s New Media + Sound Art program and Basically Good Media Lab, are thrilled to present Simran Sachar’s ‘The Edge of the Underworld’ as part of our 9th annual festival!
Join us for the film premiere and a look at the unfolding creative process of an emerging artist and their collaborators navigating XR technology.
The Edge of the Underworld is an experimental dance film blending 3D animation, volumetric film, and digital cinema to explore a journey through alcohol-induced chaos. Capturing fragmented memories, unfaithful encounters, and the descent into a dark, subterranean realm.
Accessibility Measures for this Event
Mask Mandate
Throughout the festival wearing masks is highly encouraged for all events when possible as a practice of collective community care. With the festival taking place during the peak of flu season, we strive to be able to gather in groups while being mindful of our own and others’ health needs. We will have masks available on site throughout the festival. For events with smaller gathering spaces air purifiers will be on site to assist with providing clean air and circulation. We are encouraging Masks by:
All staff will be wearing masks throughout the entirety of the festival events, only when we are speaking on a stage at a distance from folks during speeches/talkbacks will we remove our masks to help support our ASL interpreters and lip readers
Printed signage will be posted throughout our event spaces, as well as included in our screening slides that play on loop prior to the start of each screening stating "Masks Highly Encouraged"
We will have volunteers stationed before our box office and will be handing out masks to each individual who enters the space
Currently we have surgical masks available for audiences, and are in the process of trying to secure more masks that are either N95 or KN95 (we currently do not have these confirmed)
** 2 air purifiers will be in the space at this event
** Stim Toys will be available to borrow
Photo by Maya Francis
Director, Choreographer, Producer, Writer: Simran Sachar
Voiceover: Simran Sachar
DOP: Alinar Dapilos
Editor: Alinar Dapilos
Technical and Visual artist: Laine Butler
Volumetric Video Capture: Nancy Lee
Music, Post-production Audio: Stefan Nazarevich
Dance Artists & Interpreters: Sophia Gamboa, Sevrin Emnacen-Boyd, Simran Sachar
Makeup artist: Sophia Sosa Gamboa
Hair artist: Tammie Grace Sulit