JUMPGATE
Contemporary Art Collaborations
With so much focus on the technology, we believe it's important to look at the new language(s) of immersive content and try to understand how humans behave and respond in these new environments. That's why over the past decade, we've worked with artists, filmmakers, and organisations to explore their practice in immersive and projection domains.
Square Circles - William Barton, Stephen King, Mark Patterson, the ASQ
SXSW Sydney 2023
Wave - Gerry Wedd, Mark Patterson, Gabriella Smart
AGSA 2022
Walk With Me - Danny Ben-Moshe, Melbourne Holocaust Museum
MHM 2021
Living Rocks: A Fragment of the Universe- James Darling & Lesley Forwood, the ASQ, Paul Stanhope
ZKM 2022, Venice Biennale 2019, Hugo Michell 2018
The Choreography of Emotions - Garry Stewart, Australian Dance Theatre
AFF 2020
Running 62: The Arrival - Madeleine Parry, Zibeon Fielding, Molly O'Connor
Summation of Force VR - Trent Parke, Narelle Autio, Matthew Bate, Rebecca Summerton, Closer Productions
Sundance 2017, Berlin Film Festival 2017, SxSW 2017
The Unseen House - Sydney Opera House, Google Cultural Institute, We Love Jam Studios
Sydney Opera House 2017
Once Upon A Time In The Western Suburbs - Gideon Obarzanek, Matthew Bate, Closer Productions
TOPA 2017
Stuck In The Middle With You - Gideon Obarzanek, Matthew Bate, Closer Productions, Sydney Dance Company
ACMI 2016
Madeleine - Piers Mussared
AFF 2015
Wave
Gerry Wedd, Gabriella Smart, Mark Patterson
Gerry Wedd’s iconic ceramics and drawings are brought to life with an evocative soundscape composed by Gabriella Smart in this cinematic production produced by Mark Patterson directed by Wedd, Patterson and Smart, with digital production by Jumpgate.
AGSA 2022-2023
Square Circles
William Barton, Stephen King
Square Circles VR is an immersive virtual reality work that draws upon William Barton’s Country, culture and dreaming. It uses emergent digital storytelling to create breath taking visual landscapes, featuring Barton’s visceral music, along with friend and collaborator violist Stephen King and the Australian String Quartet (ASQ).
AGSA 2022-2023
Walk With Me
Danny Ben-Moshe, Jayne Josem
Square Circles VR is an immersive virtual reality work that draws upon William Barton’s Country, culture and dreaming. It uses emergent digital storytelling to create breath taking visual landscapes, featuring Barton’s visceral music, along with friend and collaborator violist Stephen King and the Australian String Quartet (ASQ).
AGSA 2022-2023
Living Rocks: A Fragment of the Universe
James Darling, Lesley Forwood
Addressing the question: what was our planet three billion years ago? the installation Living Rocks: A Fragment of the Universe is a South Australian collaboration by artists James Darling and Lesley Forwood, Jumpgate, composer Paul Stanhope, and the Australian String Quartet.
In Living Rocks, water floods the Magazzini del Sale, the historic stone salt storehouses of Venice that have stood the test of many an inundation. From an extensive pool emerge thrombolites that have been crafted, not by unimaginable time and the force of nature, but by the artists who employ the distinctive roots of an arid land eucalypt to create living rocks.
2018-2022
The Choreography of Emotions
Garry Stewart, Australian Dance Theatre
Featuring ADT dancers, and with cinematography by Brenton Kempster, The Choreography of Emotions is an experimental excavation of human emotions, bringing the audience into a lifetime’s worth of experiences painted through the kinetic brush of dance. The Choreography of Emotions explores the intricacies of human emotion through bodily movement and a powerful journey with stunning video effects that recontextualise how we perceive the body.
2020
Summation of Force VR
Trent Parke, Narelle Autio, Matthew Bate, Rebecca Summerton, Closer Productions
In a moonlit backyard, a mythical game of cricket is being played between two boys. Over the course of the game we contemplate the physics, motion, pitfalls and beauty of this idiosyncratic sport.
Created by Trent Parke and Narelle Autio in collaboration with Matthew Bate, The Summation of Force VR is a virtual reinterpretation of their moving image work, placing you inside it.
Dark, surreal and exquisitely beautiful, this virtual reality artwork uses cricket as a metaphor for life itself.
The Unseen House
We Love Jam Studios, Sydney Opera House, Google Cultural Institute
A 360° experience capturing one of the world’s busiest performing arts centres between the acts — waking up, in rehearsal and at rest — featuring the outstanding young Australian soprano Nicole Car, cellist and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Director of Artistic Planning, Benjamin Schwartz and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra itself under the baton of David Robertson, Chief Conductor and Artistic Director.
Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hunddVoMjo
Running 62: The Arrival
Madeleine Parry, Zibeon Fielding, Molly O'Connor
A young father runs, contemplating life, death and self-belief. Zibeon Fielding is on the edge of achieving his dream, completing an ultra-marathon through the central desert where he lives. Scored by the soulful beats of Electric Fields we follow Zibeon as he makes the final sprint to reach his community. Regardless of whether he makes the distance there is going to be one hell of a party waiting for him.
2020
Once Upon A Time In The Western Suburbs
Gideon Obarzanek, Matthew Bate, Closer Productions
After previously collaborating on the award-winning I Want to Dance Better at Parties, Matthew Bate and Gideon Obarzanek team up for Once Upon a Time in the Western Suburbs. This VR dance work puts viewers in the middle of a street dance battle featuring artists from the XO State festival, held as part of Arts Centre Melbourne's AsiaTOPA in February 2017.
Stuck In The Middle With You
Gideon Obarzanek, Matthew Bate, Closer Productions, Sydney Dance Company, ACMI
Stuck in the Middle With You is a Closer Productions Film made in Association with Sydney Dance Company. Concept developed from an original dance work choreographed by Gideon Obarzanek, commissioned by Sydney Dance Company.
Using cutting-edge virtual reality technology, viewers are taken on a vibrant and pulsating visceral journey, that fuses choreography, performance, documentary and drama to generate an unprecedented lifelike experience. Viewers are transported on stage, interacting with performers, and ultimately becoming a component of the choreography themselves. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Matthew Bate and choreographer Gideon Obarzanek, this landmark experience features Sydney Dance Company dancers performing Gideon’s L’Chaim.
