WHITE SANDS CRYSTAL FOXES, 2022
“ The Shimmer,” opening live performance at the World Premiere of White Sands Crystal Foxes, Berlin Film Festival, 2022.
A 360° immersive experimental cinema work by Liz Rosenfeld
* 2D immersive installation and vr versions also available.
“Little short of transcendent.” “You have to get involved in this idiosyncratic project, whereby the nature of the experience is of great importance.”
-New York Times - Film-Rezensionen
“ Known for her boundary pushing approach to depicting contemporary queer experiences...Rosenfeld has provided us with a theoretical framework and new cinematic language.”
-Alt/Kino
WHITE SANDS CRYSTAL FOXES is Liz Rosenfeld’s new experimental cinema work created for a 360° immersive experience Starring Phoebe Patey-Ferguson. Approaching questions regarding queer sexuality in the face of the degeneration of nature and sustainable resources, Rosenfeld situates the audience within a cruising fallout shelter, where they are taken on a journey across the future of flesh, holes, crystals, and foxes. Humans have failed in providing a future with ecological resources and environmental survival, what happens when all they are left with is themselves?
WHITE SANDS CRYSTAL FOXES is the final work in a two year creative body of research in which Rosenfeld has been exploring and creating towards their first feature film FOXES. Through performance, short videos & films, drawings, collages and expanded cinema installations, Rosenfeld has been researching themes of queer desire, climate change, invisible genocide, and radical-positive apocalypse.
WORLD PREMIERE: An official selection of the Forum Expanded Program in the 72nd Berlinale International Film Festival, 2022
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CAST/CREW
Starring: Phoebe Patey- Ferguson
Director: Liz Rosenfeld
Producer(s): AMARD BIRD FILMs: Paula Alamillo Rodriguez & Sonja Klumper
Editor: Alex Eisenberg
VXF & 360° effects editor: Hannes Wagner
Cinematography: Imogen Heath
Original Sound Design/ Composition: Neda Sanai
Sound Mix: Samuel Klemke
Zeiss-Großplanetarium,Berlin Technical Support & Assistance: Florian Meyer & Jurgen Rienow
Production Manager Germany: Nadja Krueger
Production Manager Japan: Iwasa Hiroki
Production Manager USA: Kathy Rosenfeld
This project was made possible with support from the Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg and the Zeiss-Großplanetarium,Berlin.
PRESS ABOUT WHITE SANDS CRYSTAL FOXES:
What Sands Crystal Foxes featured in the BBC World News overview of the 2022 Berlinale.