CORE DUMP

CORE DUMP is a born-digital fictional short CGI film depicting a surreal flock of drones hunting for e-waste. The film borrows its title from a term describing a computer‘s documented memory when a program– or the computer as a whole – fails. The film‘s scenery, designed and operated in a gaming engine, happens in a 3D-fabricated desert-like post-industrial landscape with an open dump site stacked with household junk. Picking up on Climate Fiction, CORE DUMP is a hyper-realistic fantasy addressing the politics behind e-waste management. Contemplating 21st-century warfare and links between environmental and geopolitical conditions, the work addresses – sometimes in abstract, sometimes in a concrete manner – the difficulty of transporting goods during a siege, the usage of drone swarms in warfare, the destruction of historical monuments during combat action, and more.

CORE DUMP is a part of CITY DUMMIES, a series of born-digital motion clips and interactive video games created using gaming engines. It depicts hyper-realistic fabricated urban sceneries with surreal embodied machines at play.

Alona Rodeh © Carolina Frank photos © Alona Rodeh