Tribeca Fest To Showcase Tamara Shogaolu’s Multi-Platform Experience ‘Un(re)solved’
Today, Tamara Shogaolu, award-winning international director and new media artist, announced that the world premiere of multi-platform experience UN(RE)SOLVED will be held at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival as part of the Immersive lineup on June 9th. The multi-platform experience consists of an interactive web experience, augmented reality installation, and podcast. It was produced in collaboration with FRONTLINE, Ado Ato Pictures, StoryCorps, Hudson Scenic, Northeastern University’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, and Black Public Media.
Executive produced by award-winning filmmakers Dawn Porter (John Lewis: Good Trouble, Gideon’s Army) and Raney Aronson-Rath (Executive Producer, FRONTLINE), Ado Ato Pictures was responsible for leading both the interactive web experience and augmented reality installation, with Tamara Shogaolu directing both projects.
UN(RE)SOLVED is a multi-platform experience telling the story of and investigating more than 150 racially-motivated civil rights era murders. The installation will use augmented reality to bring to life stories of the victims of these racially-motivated murders whose cases were reopened under the Emmett Til Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act.
The web interactive will be included in Tribeca’s Best Creative Nonfiction competition.
In a statement, Ado Ato Pictures’ creative director, Tamara Shogaolu said:
“When designing this project, I was really inspired by the ability to design an experience that mixes art and technology with powerful investigative journalism to bring to life the stories of victims of racially-motivated murders.
I want to allow audiences to participate in the memorializing of these individuals who lost their lives tragically.
Often when we talk about the civil rights era, or racially motivated murders, there’s a misconception that it feels like it’s from another time. By using technology to bring it to the now and have it exist in a physical space is something that’s really powerful.
The way that I’ve designed the experience is audiences have to say the name of the person in order to be able to access their story and learn about their cases and hear from their next of kin. The augmented reality installation represents a living quilt that allows audiences to memorialize these victims’ lives while the web interactive allows audiences to delve deeper into some of the cases. By exploring the different chapters and the stories of these individuals through the installation and the web interactive, the audience member actually literally acts as a source of light during the experience.
With this experience, the idea is that all 150+ names are surrounding us.”
Tamara Shogaolu is an award-winning international director and new media artist, as well as the founder and creative director of Ado Ato Pictures. She is passionate about sharing stories across mediums, platforms, and virtual and physical spaces in order to promote understanding and challenge preconceptions.
With a track record in featuring her work at film festivals, galleries, and museums worldwide, such as the Tribeca Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the National Gallery of Indonesia, her innovative approach to storytelling has led to sources like The Guardian, Forbes and Vogue naming her as a leader in the field of new and immersive media. She was a 2018 Sundance Institute New Frontier Lab Programs Fellow, a 2019 Gouden Kalf Nominee, a 2020 Creative Capital Award Recipient, and a 2020 Sundance New Frontier John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Grantee.
Tamara was a Burton Lewis Endowed Scholar for Directing at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, where she graduated with an MFA. Shogaolu was also a Fulbright Scholar in Egypt, a Luce Scholar in Indonesia, and an Academy Nicholls Fellowship Semifinalist.
UN(RE)SOLVED opens at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 9th. The outdoor augmented reality installation will be free and open to the public during the festival, at a location soon to be announced.
To purchase a pass and for more information about UN(RE)SOLVED’s web interactive and outdoor installation, please visit: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/unresolved/