These Networks In Our Skin
2021
Moving Image (looped)
Duration: 5:48:00
This is a film — or maybe a vision — about us and our networks: how we can be, or how they could be, or how we used to be, or what we will be.
These Networks In Our Skin depicts four women who work to rewire the cables that carry the information that powers the world. The short film draws from traditional Igbo cosmology to offer a dreamlike visual lexicon of what it might mean to recreate the Internet, starting from the values infused in the cables that make it up. Surreal, familiar, and disquieting all at once, the film lives in a space between things that could happen and things that do.
This work was supported by the Princeton University Ida B Wells Just Data Lab. See below for additional information on support and production.
PRODUCTION TEAM
Writer, Creator, Director: Mimi Ọnụọha
Producer: Nick Castle
Editors: Nick Castle & Mimi Ọnụọha
Director of Photography: Julian Muller
Music & Sound Design: Mathien
Production Designer: Noa Bricklin
Art Director: Thor Foss
Gaffer: Chase Shamlian
1st AC: Ahmed Nazim
Key Grip: Jessica Papayiannis
Set Dresser: Brooke van Hensbergen
Colorist: Daniel Orentlicher
Production Assistants: Mia Walker & Elaina Castle
Woman 1: Naliaka Wakhisi
Woman 2: Mimi Ọnụọha
Woman 3: Joti Desour
Woman 4: Georgetta Buggs
SUPPORT
Film commissioned and supported by Princeton University's Ida B Wells Just Data Lab.
Additional support provided by the following departments at Princeton University:
Lewis Center for the Arts, University Center for Human Values, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton Humanities Council, and Center for Digital Humanities.