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I’m extremely glad to announce on my blog the latest multimedia project by Alt + F4 – Bulaja Company ‘Mechanical Figures – twentythousandcycles.NET‘ which covers the life and work of Nikola Tesla.

For that reason they interviewed famous artists and creative individuals like Terry Gilliam, Andy Serkis, Paul Auster, Laurie Anderson, Marina Abramovic, Christopher Priest, Douglas Rushkoff, and their thoughts were origin ‘for creation of a peculiar and distinctive story about the creativity and technology’.

The film is now at the post production phase and will be premiered internationally on Streaming festival for audio visual art in November. Although I already invited the main suspect – author Helena Bulaja to be guest on my blog, while we are arranging our meeting, you can read  her exclusive interview about the film for Streaming festival.

Announcing the film Helena says that ‘Mechanical Figures – twentythousandcycles.NET raises many ‘questions and reinvestigates the film as a form of art which is today more and more consumed through handheld and mobile devices, as well as the Internet, which raises a question what kind of film can truly entertain and content a contemporary consumer.’

‘With this project we will try to approach this question, and our goal is to create an interactive film in the real meaning of the word. We chose Tesla as our subject, not only because of his intriguing and interesting persona, but also because he was an inspiration to many artists in general, and in film in particular.  (More information about the interviewed artists is available here…)’

‘The project’s main idea is to try to explore and reconstruct the creative process in the mind of a genius, to reconstruct the labyrinthine path of creativity that is happening from an idea to the final outcome.’

‘The project will be multidimensional. The final goal is to create a short animated film (stop motion animation combined with video and drawing) of about 30 minutes, which is made in HD and will be suitable for theatrical screening and broadcasting, and which at the same time serves as a core of the interactive version suitable for mobile and handheld devices and the Internet, which will be composed of about fifty short interactive film stories about creativity inspired by Tesla, and serve as a starting point that will encourage other artists to join the project and continue to build stories on the Internet. The short video clips will be connected to the main film with the aim to create interactive content suitable for devices such as iPod/iPhone, mobiles, Internet…’

‘Visually attractive content will also be published as a collection of 16 art books, where each book will also contain its corresponding story a DVD. The books will be created in an unusual way, as a result of work on technologically more innovative form of interactive film, and the development of ideas in the process of creating of the fist form will open space for their reinterpretation in a seemingly simple but specially poetic medium – the book. The story about boundaries and ranges of human creativity will be told through photo stories made by 3 very interesting photographers – Mare Milin, Alistair Keddie and Boris Cvjetanovic.

‘After three years of intensive work on gathering of the materials, the project has reached its final phase. We have already filmed most of the materials on different locations around the world related to Tesla’s life and work, from Croatia to Budapest, Belgrade Paris, London, most of all New York, and even New Zealand and Japan’.

‘We have filmed most of about 30 planned interviews, and in 2009 we plan to finish filming at Niagara Falls, Colorado Springs and New York City, to interview remaining creative individuals whose thoughts about Tesla we want to share, and to finalize our quest for the new film form of the future.’

Check the whole collection of short video stories inspired by Nikola Tesla and other clips from collection available at : vimeo.com/album/97242