Light Years Apart

Light Years Apart (2025), a film by Christie Neptune

Media: Interactive Film

Role: Creative Technologist

Date: Sept 2021 - Present

Tools: NextJS, Google Mediapipe, Google Cloud Platform, Isadora, Touch Designer

Credit: Light Years Apart (2025) by Christie Neptune, single channel HD video, 18:50 TRT. Image courtesy of the Christie Neptune Studios.

Description:

In Light Years Apart (2025) Fula, an interdimensional being, wraps time and space to travel between parallel dimensions. The film, an interactive science fiction, investigates varying processes of 'looking' and 'engagement' within cinematic spectatorship. Utilizing biometric data and computer vision technology, Light Years Apart posits multiple trajectories within a branching narrative structure. To "see" Fula, one must first foreground her within one's field of vision and surrender to her point of view.

Light Years Apart is a film by Interdisciplinary Artist and Filmmaker, Christie Neptune with contributions from myself as Creative Technologist; Director of Photography, Daniele Sarti; and Choreographer, Kyle Marshall through generous support from the Backslash at Cornell Tech. The Backslash at Cornell Tech fund supports bleeding-edge technological interventions into artistic practice. It collides students, faculty, and artists–both on and off-campus–providing grants for artworks, art tools, and art activities that engage the latest emerging digital technologies.

For more information about Light Years Apart, go to Light Years Apart official website