Transmedia Storytelling: Camilla Plastic Ocean Plan

By blending art, film, scientific and artistic research we establish new formats for appropriate ways of thinking and doing to tackle current challenges. Global problems must be solved collectively including Citizen Power. Backed up by science, we understand the mediums of film and art as avant-garde, mind-opening, and as a multiplier for new ideas.

TRANSMEDIA STORYTELLING: CAMILLA PLASTIC OCEAN PLAN is a web exhibition based at Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF. During the Ars Electronica festival, the third room will be opened. With a mix of artistic imagination and fantasy-setting about environmental problems, the project is backed by scientific expertise from the renowned Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. The short story about Camilla guides us through the exhibition. Based on scientific collaboration, numerous artists from different parts of the world create works like painting, concept art, sculpture, 360 degree movie and VR experience.

The zone that enables life and makes the planet unique is thinner than previously thought. Due to the complex socio-economic, cultural and ecological challenges, strong images and value-based visions are required to steer towards a positive future. In the 2-hour workshop “Co-imaginations and Co-productions for Tomorrow´s World” organized by Filmuniversity Babelsberg Konrad Wolf and the Institute for Art and Innovation, the future is visualized and designed in a co-productive way. By melting our creative minds, we’ll find relevant scenarios for a world we want to live in.

About Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

We are storytellers. We tell stories through images, words and sounds, bodies and spaces, pixels and takes, budgets and technologies. We explore the history, esthetics, and future of audiovisual media. Our stories are motivated by the desire and challenge to move and inspire people and to make a difference.

We represent a wealth of different stories and artistic forms, genres and formats, specialization and exchange. Our interdisciplinary work is based on mutual respect. We work together to implement projects. In both theory and practice, we collaborate with people, companies, and institutions. We are active on a regional, national, and global level.

We are Germany’s first film university bringing scientific and artistic research together. We explore film as a narrative and technological medium, as an artistic and social practice, and as a phenomenon shaping education, entertainment, and our cultural heritage.