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Backflip / Capovolta

Nikita Diakur
Germany | 2022 | 12’15 v.o. sott. ENG/ITA

Attempting a backflip is not safe. You can break your neck, or land on your head, or land badly on your wrists. None of that is nice, so my avatar does the trick. It practices on a 6-core processor with the help of Machine Learning. The processor is not the newest but still calculates 6 jumps per iteration. One iteration takes one minute, this is 360 jumps in an hour and 8.640 jumps in a day. I wouldn’t be able to jump so much myself.

Direction/Script/Animation/Editing: Nikita Diakur
Set decorator: Paulina Ziółkowska, Bogdan Ziółkowski, Marta Sieczkowska
Coding: Max Schneider
Set: Nikita Diakur, Leonhard Gläser
Image: Nikita Diakur, Gerhard Funk, María Anaya Alderete
Special effects: Nikita Diakur, Mario von Rickenbach, Christopher Dorstewitz
Sound design/Mix: David Kamp
Music: aiva.ai & thunderkamp
Production: Nikita Diakur, Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Pierre Baussaron
Distribution: MIYU Distribution

Nikita Diakur

Since 2009 based in Berlin, David Kamp works with animators, visual artists, companies, galleries, NGOs and cultural institutions worldwide. Services include music composition and recording, sound design, audio branding and audio post-production – from foley and sound editing to final mix in stereo, surround as well as Dolby Atmos, ambisonics and other immersive audio formats. David’s projects and collaborations won 200+ awards and are regularly shown at international festivals, museums and galleries.