The Cup

Julia Dankmar and Joe Jackson produced a teleshopping parody installation - titled 'The Cup' - as part of their contribution to Room Three of the international project 'Camilla Plastic Ocean Plan: Transmedia Storytelling,' hosted at Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf in Potsdam, Germany. The installation starred actress Ilina Yosifova and professor Stefan Winter and a digital version is now available to view online.

Project Organisers - Introduction:
Camilla Plastic Ocean Plan started at Filmuniversity Babelsberg because the worldwide media present often environmental problems in a way that makes us feel gloomy and hopeless. Consequently, people start ignoring facts. However, what about the future we want to live in? Can’t we use the expertise of storytelling in movies to design pictures of a desirable world? New things are very often created by a combination of things that have never been combined before. With a mix of artistic imagination and fantasy-setting on environmental problems CPOP is a mind opener backed by scientific expertise from the renowned Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. The scientists willingly cooperate with us in creating a worldwide multi-disciplinary space to solve this complex issue. Artistic research with the method of transmedia storytelling uses the short-story about Camilla as red line for the works and guide thought the exhibition. Based on scientific collaboration, numerous artists create works like paintings, concept art, sculptures, 360degree-short-movies, and VR-experience. CPOP is a mind-opener offering an alternative point of view on environmental problems. People need inner pictures from things they want to reach. First, you need an emotional idea from the world you want to create. Then you will find the way. In 2019 a Masterclass brought together experts and students from all over the world. This was supported by DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and the European Union STARTS-project and additional funds.

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