ISTHMUS ANCIENT RIVER
ISTHMUS ANCIENT RIVER, screened on Piccadilly Lights as part of CIRCA 2025
Made in Unreal Engine, ISTHMUS ANCIENT RIVER (2025) sits between a narrative film and a gameplay. Viewers are invited to follow an Ancestor Simulation on a journey down the river of time, witnessing the remnants and ruins of their descendants. From the distant future to the present, they encounter a radioactive waste isolation plant-turned-temple, centuries of ecological adaptation and the long term impacts of environmental violence, until they meet the present, represented as a dam in the river.
This work was commissioned by the Mechatronic Library and has been shown at Mimosa House in London, the World Museum in Liverpool, Longsight Art Space in Manchester, Bogiasso Festival in Choggia and was nominated for the CIRCA Prize 2025.
30-second trailer below.
