Unity Atlantic Rhythm Map

Unity Atlantic Rhythm Map : an interactive video Map that celebrates living dance heritage, with contributions by Baara Niogonya archives and Code Your Future UK. Thirteen original ethnographic movies are curated with selected archival videos to tell a story of Black history, present and future through dance and music. To experience the Map, plug in headphones or a speaker and visit the website: http://www.unityatlantic.org

  • Deirdre C Molloy
    Director
    Drum Calls | Body Recalls
  • Deirdre C. Molloy
    Writer
  • Gerador
    Producer
  • Code Your Future UK
    Producer
  • Aurelie Cappelle-Sigere
    Key Cast
  • Gustavo Souza Marques
    Key Collaborators
  • Baraa Niogonya
    Key Collaborators
  • Project Type:
    Student, Performance, Interactive Film
  • Genres:
    dance, history, documentary, afrofuturism, ethnography, education
  • Minimum Runtime:
    4 minutes
  • Maximum Runtime:
    40 minutes
  • Average Runtime:
    10 minutes
  • Variable Runtime Details:
    This is an experimental, interactive infographic archive. The films are modular data, each displayed in a modal window. Each film ends either in its own time (eg: 2-6 mins average) or when the user closes the modal window and clicks on another film pop-up. The Map's core function is using the internet to serve curated video streams and contextual text/map data. Online functionality gives the Map its long-term value as a non-profit interactive resource to which the public can contribute. One of the movies runs too long currently but we will fix that before your submission deadline on 27th October.
  • Completion Date:
    September 19, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Language:
    English
  • Student Project:
    Yes - University College Cork and University of Toulouse France
  • Manifest exhibition at L'atelier 2024 sept 19 -oct 10
    Nantes
    France
    September 19, 2024
    French Première in Namtes
    Finalist
Director Biography - Deirdre C Molloy

Under the artistic name Unity Atlantic, Deirdre Molloy creates film, music and performance collaborations. Unity is a container for collaborations that flow from her PhD research. Thanks to EU funding, Martiniquan dancer Aurélie Capelle-Sigère joins Unity for the Black Atlantic Space-Time production through 2023-24. Transdisciplinary co-producers include Code Your Future (UK) and Gerador (Portugal) for the Project Manifest exhibition at L'Atelier in Nantes, France from 19.09 to 06.10 this year.

Molloy uses social dance ethnography and digital design to research Black Atlantic identity. Visiting the USA this year with Erasmus+ funding, she participated in Blues, DC Hand Dance, DC Bop, and street dance communities. Academic highlights of 2024 include presenting a paper at the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance at Duke University, at SLIPPAGE dance lab of Northwestern University and at Droppin’ Science hip hop conference in Cork. In 2022, Molloy affiliated with CIPHER ERC and won the Danijela Memorial Award for interdisciplinary innovation in Film, Music and Theatre. Molloy's practice-as-research follows degrees in Psychology (2.1 TCD), Multimedia (1.1 DCU) and Ethnochoreology (1.1 UL). Molloy is a PhD candidate at UCC in cotutelle with University of Toulouse, France. Her research websites are designed to platform dance culture-bearer voices: https://decodenoir.org 

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