Sea of Tranquillity

Original Title: Sea of Tranquility

29' 50" | 2010 (Completed)

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Director:	Hans Op de Beeck
Producer:	Hans Op de Beeck
Writer:	Hans Op de Beeck

Full credits

Sea of Tranquillity is a combination of live video recordings of actors and digitally-generated 3D environments in which the viewer makes a night-time visit to a mysterious, mythical cruise liner: the 'Sea of Tranquillity'.

synopsis

This fictitious cruise liner has been designed by Hans Op de Beeck, following a short residence at Saint-Nazaire in France in 2008, during which the artist became intrigued by the remarkable World War II story and post-war reconstruction of this harbour town, whose shipyards produce the world's largest cruise liners. It seemed to the artist that the Queen Mary 2, then just completed was, like the Burj Khalifa in Dubai (the highest building in the world), a suitable metaphor for our belief in spurious values and in such concepts as work, leisure and luxury consumerism.

Credits

Director
Hans Op de Beeck
Producer
Hans Op de Beeck
Writer
Hans Op de Beeck
Cast
Johan Leysen, Wim Opbrouck, Pascale Platel, Leah Thys, Hubert Damen
Editing
Jasper Lutin
Photography
Maximiliaan Dierickx
Sound
Sonogents, Jérôme Petit, Thomas Rouvillain
Music
Hans Op de Beeck, Sam Vloemans

Format

Creation details

Type
Film
Category
Experimental
Production share
Majority Flemish Production
Belgium
Genre
Year of production

2010
Production status
Completed
Original title
Sea of Tranquility
Original language
English

Technical specs

Running time
29' 50"
Aspect ratio
16:9
Colour
Colour

Contact & sales

Contact

Studio Hans Op de Beeck

Birminghamstraat 287
1080 Anderlecht
Belgium

T +32 (0)2 527 87 18
info@hansopdebeeck.com

www.hansopdebeeck.com

Details

Festivals & awards

Festivals

No festival information available.

Awards

International FIlm Festival Rotterdam XL (2011, The Netherlands); Videoex (2011, Switzerland)

Partners

Supported by

Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), The National Centre of Visual Art - Ministry of Culture and Communication (F), Le Fresnoy - National Studio for Contemporary Arts (F), Emmanuelle and Michael Guttman