EARTH MOTHER, SKY FATHER
Director: Kordae Jatafa Henry
The Congo: 2030. Welcome to this new and mind-bending sci-fi future where the Central African nation is no longer shipping its unrefined rare earth minerals out to sea, but is keeping its wealth for itself—buried deep within the ground. This is Africa's future through dance—a ceremony for the God of Rare Earth.
Earth Mother, Sky Father 2030 was shot in the blistering heat of the summer of 2018. This project was developed over the course of a year as director Kordae Henry's master's thesis project at Sci-Arc. I have always gravitated towards projects with technical challenges so this was right up my alley as Kordae and I began our initial conversations and I learned more about his vision. I had the great fortune of working with the acclaimed street dancer Storyboard P who plays the character of the "excavation programmer", the only human left behind to work among the machines. To round out the whole project we had Shabazz Palaces' experimental hip-hop tracks "Sonic MythMap for the Trip Back" and "Late night phone calls" as the score.
