2024

CORE DUMP

4K CGI short animation film, duration: 10:39 min

Honorary Mention, New Animation Art, Ars Electronica 2025
Also shown as a solo presentation at Loop Fair, Barcelona; Pulsar: Projected Ecologies, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte (MUCA), Mexico City (2025); and as central pieces in solo shows Interzone at Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen (2024), Phenomenal! at the Center for Digital Art, Holon (2025).

״As the technically most complex of Alona Rodeh’s recent Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) animation works, CORE DUMP examines the post-industrial landscapes of the present. The surreal story follows a swarm of drones hunting down valuable electronic junk on a sprawling open landfill. The shape of the landfill is reminiscent of a prehistoric cult worship site, the contours of which were recreated using electronic waste. The dystopian scene highlights the ecological repercussions of uncontrolled consumerism, accelerating automation, and inadequate e-waste management. The film begins with us observing from a distance, but soon we become part of the drone's frenzied flight, until we finally plunge into a deep, concrete shaft. The free fall underground prompts associations ranging from Alice in Wonderland tumbling into the “rabbit hole” to our wormhole scrollings through the seemingly endless information loops of the Internet to the chasms of current geopolitical conflicts.״ —Julia Höner, Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen

The work was created with the support of Stiftung Kunstfonds, the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Israeli Lottery Council for Culture and Arts, and Artis.

Team:
CGI Environment, Lighting, VFX, Rachid Moro
Cinematography: Wallace David, Rachid Moro
Sound Design: Daphna Keenan, Alona Rodeh
Programming: Eagle Wu
CGI R&D: Federico Zurani

Alona Rodeh, Installation view CGI Animation Film CORE DUMP, Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen, 2024 Alona Rodeh, Girl (from the Safe and Sound Poster Series), 2015

Alona Rodeh, CGI Animation Film, Climate Fiction, Geopolitics, Middle-East Conflict, Rujum El Hiri, Unreal Engine, Art Games

2024

CORE DUMP

4K CGI short animation film, duration: 10:39 min

Honorary Mention, New Animation Art, Ars Electronica 2025
Also shown as a solo presentation at Loop Fair, Barcelona; Pulsar: Projected Ecologies, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte (MUCA), Mexico City (2025); and as central pieces in solo shows Interzone at Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen (2024), Phenomenal! at the Center for Digital Art, Holon (2025).

״As the technically most complex of Alona Rodeh’s recent Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) animation works, CORE DUMP examines the post-industrial landscapes of the present. The surreal story follows a swarm of drones hunting down valuable electronic junk on a sprawling open landfill. The shape of the landfill is reminiscent of a prehistoric cult worship site, the contours of which were recreated using electronic waste. The dystopian scene highlights the ecological repercussions of uncontrolled consumerism, accelerating automation, and inadequate e-waste management. The film begins with us observing from a distance, but soon we become part of the drone's frenzied flight, until we finally plunge into a deep, concrete shaft. The free fall underground prompts associations ranging from Alice in Wonderland tumbling into the “rabbit hole” to our wormhole scrollings through the seemingly endless information loops of the Internet to the chasms of current geopolitical conflicts.״ —Julia Höner, Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen

The work was created with the support of Stiftung Kunstfonds, the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Israeli Lottery Council for Culture and Arts, and Artis.

Team:
CGI Environment, Lighting, VFX, Rachid Moro
Cinematography: Wallace David, Rachid Moro
Sound Design: Daphna Keenan, Alona Rodeh
Programming: Eagle Wu
CGI R&D: Federico Zurani