Ruta Kruliauskaite, Rebecca Ricks
'Yamammy' is a VR documentary that explores how displaced refugees navigate a world in which they possess fragmentary ethnic, religious, or national identities.
Description
'Yamammy' is a short VR documentary that explores how displaced refugees define their identities when home is in flux. In this project, a former refugee from Sierra Leone Yamammy describes her experiences moving from Sierra Leone to Guinea to New York to a small town in Idaho and how her sense of home and identity has changed over the years. The documentary functions as a fragmentary photogrammetric portrait of Yamammy, using images and stories she describes from her memory. (Class: Hacking Story Frameworks)
Classes
Hacking Story Frameworks: For Social Impact/Social Issues