LOOT

Category:

immersive

Partner:

The Mauritshuis and The Humboldt Forum

Type:

Interactive museum exhibition, VR, 3D modeling, video installation

THE MUSEUM OF THE FUTURE

Loot: 10 stories uses next-generation storytelling techniques to explore the topic of looted art and restitution. The exhibition was initiated by the Mauritshuis in The Hague, where it opened in 2023 before moving to the Humboldt Forum in Berlin in 2024. The Mauritshuis commissioned guest curators and creative directors Eline Jongsma and Kel O’Neill (Jongsma + O’Neill) to create an immersive experience that uses virtual reality, documentary filmmaking and installation design to create an artistic intervention into the museum space.

 

Jongsma + O’Neill sum up the project thusly: “Loot is both a collection of contested objects, and a vision of a possible future. In this vision, museums openly confront the topics of theft and restitution. All aspects of the discussion—from the impact of retaining looted works in museum collections to the philosophical and ethical quandaries unleashed by creating and displaying digital replicas— are addressed fearlessly and in public. The museum we long for acknowledges that looting erases the histories of its victims, and employs cutting-edge storytelling and cross-cultural collaboration to reflect on what has been lost. Form and content are inseparable, and justice and beauty both receive their due.”

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HP OMNICEPT

Category:

documentary

Partner:

HP Inc.

Type:

Branded, Documentary

Technology Pioneer As Heritage Brand

Born in a garage in Palo Alto in the late 1930s, Hewlett-Packard didn’t just start in Silicon Valley. They started Silicon Valley.

 

So when HP approached us to create a campaign highlighting their pioneering work with Mixed and Virtual Reality, we devised a concept that both respects their past, and anticipates their future.

 

 

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Megan Elliot is partnering with HP Education to build a world-class media program powered by world-class technology—including the HP Omnicept—that empowers the next generation of storytellers.

Stanford University

Jeremy Bailenson uses HP’s VR technology in his groundbreaking research into bias, identity and the human experience.

His Name is My Name

Category:

immersive

Partner:

Houses Of Darkness

Type:

Instagram based documentary, AR

An instagram-based documentary about family secrets and the legacy of WWII

This is the story of a man named Gerrit Jongsma. He was a Jew hunter and a member of the Dutch SS. And he was also my great-grandfather. But until recently, I’d never even heard his name.”

 

These words kick off HIS NAME IS MY NAME, a groundbreaking Instagram documentary that puts the family history of Jongsma + O’Neill co-founder Eline Jongsma front and center.

 

In a narrative that unfolds across ten animated chapters and an AR experience, Eline and her partner Kel O’Neill set off to find the true story of her great-grandfather’s crimes. SInce its launch, HNIMN has attracted significant international press attention, been honored by the Webbys and won the prestigious IDFA DocLab Special Jury Award For Creative Technology.

related links

His Name Is My Name on Instagram

Watch His Name Is My Name’s 10 episodes on Instagram

 

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Mondiaal FNV

Category:

documentary

Partner:

FNV

Type:

Branded documentary

FNV Mondiaal assists local trade unions in Indonesia with their negotiation tactics

The international labor rights NGO Mondiaal FNV believes that union membership is key to improving working conditions for women in the garment industry. To get this message out, they brought on Jongsma + O’Neill to create a series of unconventional portraits of female union members in Indonesia.The film The Negotiator, which features union leader Dewi Demayanti, is a fiction-documentary hybrid featuring an improvised script created in collaboration with actual garment workers, and performed by Dewi and her colleagues