After the End is a time-lapse film that chronicles a new creation story for Australia, one of the world’s largest producers of fossil fuels and the raw materials required for contemporary technologies. Beginning 50,000 years ago, the film explores the journey of the earliest First Nations communities, through colonisation and its history of resource extraction, to a hopeful sci-fi future when new energy infrastructures emerge and stolen lands are returned. In this future powered by renewables, island communities form above oil rigs turned into artificial reefs, while a speculative Indigenous space industry launches from retired gas plants. After the End follows the First Peoples who return to the land, reclaim their sovereignty, and weave these machines into their new future world.
Participants
LIAM YOUNG, Australia, 1979. Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA.
Authorial Collaborators
Natasha Wanganeen
Technical Collaborators
Alexey Marfin (VFX Supervisor); Andrew Hu, Luis Garcia Grech, Orin Torati (Environment Artists); Attilio Bonelli (DMP Artist)
Team
Neasden Control Center (Graphics); Alex Somers (Music); Iwiri Choir (Vocals); Sam Osborne (Choir Conductor); Annie Forster (Choir Coordinator); Paul Andy, Kayntjupai Baker, Dom Barry, Audrey Brumby, Jennifer Inkatji, Tjunkaya Ken, Daisybell Kulyuru, Derik Lynch, Rebekah Osborne, Rhoda Tjitayi, Tjimpuna Williams (Choir Singers); Benjamin Waechter (Studio Engineer); Aidan Reynolds (Sound Designer); Fiber Art (Weavers)
Thanks
Keri Elmsly and Seb Chan, Australian Center for Moving Image (ACMI) (Commissioners)
Supporters
Australian Center for Moving Image (ACMI); Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)
