Wa’anak Witu Watu (2021)

Teuku Mirza

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Researched and speculated on the North Sulawesi where once belief that the first person was a woman and gave birth through a stone, Wa’anak Witu Watu investigates the fiction, myth, and cosmology of the Minahasan and their relation to the geo entity stone. The indigenous practice of Minahasa tribe—where humans celebrate their form of communication with stone—is understood as only a pre-institutionalised religion practice and categorised as animist belief. However, for people living there they see themselves practicing monotheism.

Burn the dancers!
Karema
Lumimu'ut and Toar
A woman and her crystal
Highlighting the transformation of the female character using the morpher tool
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Character Design for Karema before modeled rendered animated and simulated
Character Design for Karema before modeled rendered animated and simulated
Texture WIP for Lumimu'ut & Toar
Texture WIP for Lumimu'ut & Toar
Polygons of the 3d model for Lumimu'ut
Polygons of the 3d model for Lumimu'ut
Animation works for Natasha Tontey, The work was commissioned by Other Futures and transmediale with the support of the Martin Roth Initiative. The film was one of the nominee for the 32nd Singapore International Film Festival
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