TARTUPALUK (PROTOTYPE)

By Laakkuluk WILLIAMSON BATHORY

SCINTILLA - as PROD

Art - Culture - Completed 2023

Put on VR goggles and experience Tartupaluk, the world’s tiniest, most northern (imaginary) republic, populated by Inuit lovers. Listen to the vivacious President and be enthralled by a decolonized Inuit utopia.

Festivals
& Awards

Venice - Biennale 2022
Arctic XR Summit
IDFA 2022
DocLab Forum
Nuuk International Film Festival 2023
imagineNATIVE 2023
iNdigital Space
Berlinale 2023
Forum Expanded
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Art - Culture, Female director, VR - AR
    • Countries
    • CANADA, DENMARK, GREENLAND
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, INUKTITUT
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 9 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Laakkuluk WILLIAMSON BATHORY
    • Writer(s)
    • Laakkuluk WILLIAMSON BATHORY
    • Producer(s)
    • Charles S. ROY (SCINTILLA), Emile HERTLING PÉRONARD (ANORAK FILM)
    • Synopsis
    • TARTUPALUK (PROTOTYPE) is a virtual reality experience during which users are invited to visit the imaginary Republic of Tartupaluk (“looking like a kidney”). Starring director Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory as the larger-than-life, newly inaugurated President of the Republic, the work blends 360 live-action video, motion-capture animation, and VFX to bring to life a poetic, sometimes humorous Inuit utopia set in this barren, uninhabited 1.3 sq km island within the territorial waters of both Canada and Greenland. Having been the subject of real-life, decades-old economic and political disputes between Ottawa and Copenhagen, Tartupaluk is thus completely re-imagined in Laakkuluk’s visionary extravaganza, illustrating how a deserted and faraway, yet politically coveted piece of land can blossom into a cross-border, humanistic, and convening “nation of lovers.”