Dr Dani Ploeger's 'Line of Contact' exhibited at the London Film Festival
Through 16 October, Dr Dani Ploeger’s ‘Line of Contact’ will be exhibited at the London Film Festival.
Over the last eight years, Dr Ploeger has covered the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In the Spring of 2017, he travelled to Mariupol to accompany a group of soldiers during their daily activities on the frontline. He documented the seemingly endless waiting that often occurred at their positions.
In ‘Line of Contact (2017-22)’ this footage is transformed into an overwhelming VR experience, presented on a custom-made headset. The device tracks the visitors’ eye movement, triggering an accompanying soundscape.
The work has been nominated for the London Film Festival’s Best Immersive and XR Award 2022. Winners of the London Film Festival Awards will be revealed live on the BFI’s YouTube and social media accounts at 16.00 on Sunday 16 October.
Dani Ploeger is an artist, activist, cultural theorist and Research Fellow at Central. His work is centred around computer programming, electronics hacking, cultural theory and performance, and it investigates and subverts the spectacles of sex, violence and waste in techno-consumer culture. This has including making a VR installation while accompanying frontline troops in the Russo-Ukrainian War, travelling to dump sites in Nigeria to collect electronic waste originating from Europe, stealing razor wire from the so-called ‘high-tech fence’ on the EU outer border in Hungary, and interviewing witnesses of the US drone attacks in Pakistan about sound and technologies of violence.
Read more about ‘Line of Contact’ in Newsweek.
Book tickets at the BFI Website.
Find out more about Dr Dani Ploeger’s work on his staff profile page or by visiting his website.
Line of Contact (2017-22)
Lead artist
Dani Ploeger
Video editor
William Bates, Equirec Studio London
Sound editor
Shelly Bar On, Cinephase Studio Paris
Ukraine coordinator
Dmitry Kolchinsky