Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Niranthea – A Portrait of Multiplicity in Five Movements
Directed by Marco Donnarumma
Duration 25' | German Sign Language with English subtitles
Officially selected for #WOMEX24 Film Programme:
Saturday 26 October, 15:45-16:45
Market Screening
Production Country, Year Germany, 2023 | Produced by Marco Donnarumma | Producers Melissa Lindgren, Tobias Janson | Co-Produced by PACT Zollverein with scientific support by the Intelligent Instruments Lab at the Iceland University of Arts in Reykjavik | Funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia as a Medienkunstfellow | Directors of Photography Daniele Lucchini, Margherita Pevere | Sound Marco Donnarumma, Leiche | Editor Neil Marco Donnarumma
Emerging from five months of participatory research by a group of d/Deaf and hard of hearing people and Donnarumma – himself late-deafened, Niranthea is a short film blending documentary and audiovisual synaesthesia to tackle deafhood, prosthetics and the cyborg. By weaving the group's unscripted dialogues into a sonic and visual composition created by subverting AI algorithms found in hearing aids and implants, the film celebrates modes of perception that dethrone the audist dogma of ‘normal’ hearing.
Marco Donnarumma is an artist, performer, stage director and theorist weaving together contemporary performance, new media art and interactive computer music. He is internationally acknowledged for solo performances, stage productions and installations that defy genres, and where the body becomes a morphing language to speak critically of ritual, power and technology.
More info about the WOMEX 24 Film Programme here: womex.com
See you in Manchester! #worldwidemusic #musicfilm
Niranthea – A Portrait of Multiplicity in Five Movements
Directed by Marco Donnarumma
Duration 25' | German Sign Language with English subtitles
Officially selected for #WOMEX24 Film Programme:
Saturday 26 October, 15:45-16:45
Market Screening
Production Country, Year Germany, 2023 | Produced by Marco Donnarumma | Producers Melissa Lindgren, Tobias Janson | Co-Produced by PACT Zollverein with scientific support by the Intelligent Instruments Lab at the Iceland University of Arts in Reykjavik | Funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia as a Medienkunstfellow | Directors of Photography Daniele Lucchini, Margherita Pevere | Sound Marco Donnarumma, Leiche | Editor Neil Marco Donnarumma
Emerging from five months of participatory research by a group of d/Deaf and hard of hearing people and Donnarumma – himself late-deafened, Niranthea is a short film blending documentary and audiovisual synaesthesia to tackle deafhood, prosthetics and the cyborg. By weaving the group's unscripted dialogues into a sonic and visual composition created by subverting AI algorithms found in hearing aids and implants, the film celebrates modes of perception that dethrone the audist dogma of ‘normal’ hearing.
Marco Donnarumma is an artist, performer, stage director and theorist weaving together contemporary performance, new media art and interactive computer music. He is internationally acknowledged for solo performances, stage productions and installations that defy genres, and where the body becomes a morphing language to speak critically of ritual, power and technology.
More info about the WOMEX 24 Film Programme here: womex.com
See you in Manchester! #worldwidemusic #musicfilm
