Treehugger Trailer

The first chapter of Treehugger: Wawona is centred on nature's cathedral, the giant Sequoia from the famous Sequoia National Park (California, USA). Wawona is the (local Native American) Miwok’s word for ‘hoot of an owl’, imitating the sound of the Northern Spotted Owl - believed to be the tree’s spiritual guardian. Participants are invited to don a VR headset, place their heads into the tree’s knot and be transported into the Sequoia’s secret inner world. The longer you hug the tree, the deeper you drift into ‘treetime’: a hidden dimension that lies just beyond the limit of our senses. Audiences embark on a journey of abstract visualisation, following a single drop of water as it traverses from root to canopy in these enormous living structures. Treehugger is currently showing at the Southbank Centre, London for opening times please click on the following link - https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/117900-treehugger-2016 Credits: Concept by: Marshmallow Laser Feast Direction: Barney Steel, Ersin Han Ersin, Robin McNicholas Collaborating Artist: Natan Sinigaglia Executive Producer: Eleanor (Nell) Whitley Senior Producer: Mike Jones Senior Producer (US): Armand Weeresinghe Production Manager: Mark Geary Production Support: Cordelia MacDonald Binaural Sound Designer / Sonic Artist / Audio Capture: Mileece I’Anson Spatialisation Audio System Designer: Antoine Bertin 3D Designer: Harvard Tveito VVVV Developers: Chris Plant, Tebjan Halm Junior Developer: Laine Kočãne Photogrammetry & VFX Supervisor: Scott Metzger LIDAR Scanning & Photogrammetry: Mimic Root System Modelling: Ironklad Installation Technologist: Hayden Anyasi Tree Fabrication: Octant Objects / Other Fabrications / ML Fabcuts With thanks to: Natural History Museum Salford University PNY 3Dception The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York Treehugger is commissioned by Cinekid Foundation, STRP, Southbank Centre and Migrations.