Beyond Prism

Benjamin Huerta – Beyond Prism

Beyond Prism explores the boundaries between nature and technology, the unique and the multiple through a purely human sensitive and emotional perception of the world. 

In an optimistic context, could technology analyse human behaviour to the point of being able to feel emotions, understand what nature truly is, and measure what cannot be quantified?

Composed of four parts, this CGI produced short-movie illustrates the concepts of coexistence between each constitutive elements of our surrounding world, humans being the prism, the link between nature and the digital world.

In reference to the writings of Jacques Ellul, this project symbolically shows how the technicality of the world we are building can be used in an ethical and virtuous way.

Diploma project (2022) by Benjamin Huerta

Know-how
3D Graphics
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