– Audio-scape and holographic animation
– Literature + 360 screenplay + HoloLens + ACE
Never before heard recording of Agatha Christie narrating her Poirot mystery presented as a Mixed Reality performance at Port Eliot Festival 2017, developed in collaboration with Films@59.
Archive recording of the author is played as spatialised audio alongside holographic cues for plot points and character dialogue. Set in a period bedroom, the scene is an exchange between Mrs Oliver and her maid while choosing her outfit. As a fascinating extra detail, each of the featured hats are bespoke 3D models of ones selected by renowned Milliner, Stephen Jones from his own collections.
After the festival premier the work has been shown at Haifa International Film Festival and the Agatha Christie Festival as well as other smaller arts/culture events.
A unique achievement of the work was to provide a genuine, tangible and personal connection with the author. As such subsequent invitations can only be accepted from events able to closely reproduce this intimacy; by way of physical props, set dressing, location and audience management.
