How to make a human arabesque: The making of the TEDxSummit video

This film and photographic experiment set out to prove The Power of X by attempting an Ideas Worth Doing for TEDxSUMMIT.

The project fused architecture, dance, math and magic into a bespoke18-meter high triangular mirrored structure to create the world's first Human Arabesque without computer graphics.

More about TEDxSUMMIT: www.tedxsummit.com

Credits:
Agency: WE ARE Pi http://wearepi.com/
Creative Directors: Hobson-Chant
Strategy: Alex Bennett-Grant
Agency producer: Jamie Nami Kim
Director: Körner Union http://www.koernerunion.com/
Production company: Big Productions Paris http://www.bigproductions.fr/
Producer: Raphaël Carassic
DOP: Laurent Tangy
Set Designer: Laurent Tesseyre
Choreographers: Icouldneverbeadancer http://icouldneverbeadancer.com/
Editor: Matthilde Carlier
Wardrobe: Elisabeth Rousseau
Hair & Make-Up: Avril Carpentier
Line Producer: Nicolas Avram
Head of Post-Production: Natacha Dolar
Post-Production: Mikros Image http://www.mikrosimage.eu/
Music artist: Yasmine Hamdan http://www.yasminehamdan.com
Producer: Toolbox Audio http://www.toolboxaudio.com/
Sound design: WAVE Amsterdam http://www.wavestudios.co.uk/

• Category

  Film & Animation

[amaurib]

There is always a Hater! why would someone dislike this? ..

[Divyam Mehrotra]

Where the hell do they get brains for all this innovation,,,me freaking loving this

[bradvr]

Holy cr**. That is just mind boggling. Great imagination and execution. Thanks for sharing the behind the scenes...though it is still magical.

[Todd Lewis]

Nothing is impossible with human imagination!! Nothing!!!

[Arkyan Putra]

3:14 dafuq.what that hand holding?

[Gilson Camilo]

Fantástico, mostra o quanto o homem ainda pode ser criativo sem a tecnologia atual. Lindo.

[0125tota]

بؤ.  حبثض

[heetoh21]

How did they make the last X in the end?

[Glowing Bulbs]

the video itself is great!!!!

[Glowing Bulbs]

No CGI is great! Really not using or using a tool makes such a huge difference! However the X at the end had to be masked out somehow and delayed, and I wonder if that was handmade or an Editing thing in a software maybe.... I do not see the difference between using the real large mirrors, or using a software to generate the same effect. only thing is, a lower space would had been enough for the shooting.... and also a large mirror looks really good too!!!

[AmplificationProject]

This is an incredibly innovative way to do something in the digital age... make it more "real"! I think many of the challenges in our society must be faced by increasing empathy, on a global scale, and one way to do this is to "humanize" media.

[ErikRicardoLC]

0:41 No CGI, I'm disliking this video.