Venice International Film Festival: These Sleepless Nights
A mixed reality documentary kicks off a campaign for a new Constitutional amendment in the U.S.
The Next Amendment is a campaign to enshrine a right to shelter in the United States Constitution. The group launches the campaign today, with“a goal of funding projects to bring about a right to shelter in the US.”
To promote the campaign a brand new mixed reality documentary using the Magic Leap headset and featuring music by Philip Glass makes its debut at the Venice International Film Festival.
After premiering in Venice, the documentary “ will become a public art installation in SF, DC and Milwaukee” and be accessible as an app on iPhones.
The work is “inspired by Matthew Desmond’s New York Time’s Best Selling book, EVICTED, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.”
Press Release Follows
A large part of US homelessness hinges on the facilitation of court-ordered evictions. These Sleepless Nights is a mixed reality documentary that uses cutting edge spatial computing technology to allow visitors to listen, connect and engage in new ways with those on the frontline of America’s eviction crisis.
The process of eviction involves the collision of home life, the law, the market, along with America’s fraught history of racial and economic injustice. These Sleepless nights enables one to explore in-depth the experiences of those who have intimate experiences with these collisions, be it as memories from childhood, being bored at work or trying to be a mother when you can’t pay the rent. Making use of augmented reality and spatial computing, one is able to navigate their own journey through these stories and conduct their own experience. It brings nuance and a new perspective on a situation we can no longer keep sleeping through.
The Numbers1
2,350,042 eviction cases were filed
4 eviction cases filed per minute 898,479 h ouseholds received eviction judgment 2.3 million people were evicted 6,349 p eople were evicted per day1 DatacollectedbytheEvictionLab,2016
“The state has the responsibility to extend shelter from the elements to all citizens.”–Edward Saatchi
A Proposed Solution
The right to shelter — proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing that a right to shelter be extended by the Constitution, raising the lowest that a citizen can fall.
Action Roadmap:
· Trial a right to shelter in 5 US cities· Work with conservative think tanks on how to inexpensively and efficiently implement a right to shelter nationally
· Use the information gathered from trials and proposals to right to shelter laws in a state constitution
· Gather enough data and best practices that voters and lawmakers are comfortable voting for a right to shelter to be added to the US ConstitutionThe Next Amendment commissioned These Sleepless Nights to raise $1M for local action networks providing Housing First solutions from Oakland to the Bronx.
Get involved: Email us at info@the-next-amendment.com
These Sleepless Nights Credits
Created and Directed by Gabo Arora
With Music by Philip Glass
Audio Design by Lauren Hutchinson
Produced by Barry Pousman Executive Produced by Edward Saatchi, PGA
Dpt. Creative Producer Nicolas S. Roy Project Manager Laurie Caron Experience Design by Maude Thibodeau Built by Josquin Zabka,
Zachary Labrosse Rémillard
& Louis Thériault-BoivinIn association with Johns Hopkins University Immersive Storytelling and Emerging Technologies Lab, 371 Productions, Unfurl Productions, Magic Leap, and Institute for the Future
Producer Brad Lichenstein
Field Producer Miela Fetaw
Technical Producer Jeremy Kirshbaum Associate Producers Haley Knapp & Christian StrackeStory Consulting Eve Claxton & Rosemary Rodriguez Editor Lauren Hutchinson
Assistant Editor Irene Carter
Executive Producers Audrey Kim & Tomorrow Never KnowsTheme Music by Philip Glass Original score by David Drury Sound design by Christian Olsen
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