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A Virtual Reality Program of the New Media Festival
The Key to Time
Directed by Roderick Coover
Composed by Krzysztof Wołek
Rauch Planetarium, University of Louisville
Free
Director Roderick Coover teams up with University of Louisville composer Kzysztof Wołek to create a lively and surreal musical virtual reality romp across time and space adapted to be projected in the dome of the Rauch Planetarium. Tanek, a young scientist who is trying to make a time travel machine in the 1920s, is propelled two hundred years forward into a bleak future environment ravaged by climate change and war. The film mixes the genres of science fiction, surrealism, expressionism, and opera, sending viewers on a journey into a dream-like world, where Tanek must confront his doppelganger and win back his true love, Anna, to save the world from destruction.
Recipient of a prestigious Adam Mickiewicz Award, this highly imaginative film innovates with experimental, and cutting-edge technologies. Filmed at the CeTA Studios in Poland, it features both Polish performance and Louisville-based vocalists Emily Albrink, Katherine Calcamuggio, Jesse Donner, and Chad Sloan. U.S. Premiere. 2020, U.S., Virtual Reality, 50 minutes. Recommended for 15+.
Screened in conjunction with the New Music Festival organized by the New Media program at the School of Music at the University of Louisville running March 1–4, 2020.
Cinema + Director Roderick Coover will be in conversation with University of Louisville Associate Professor of Music Krzysztof Wołek following the presentation.