The experiment was failing. Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian was in a collapse Spain, one outfitted to resemble the floor of a overseas planet, and he or she knew it was time to tug out. The objective had been to check how three folks— Ben Hayoun-Stépanian and two of her doppelgängers—would type a brand new society in house utilizing their views as folks whose lives have been touched by colonization right here on Earth.
“My doppelgängers solely stayed with me two nights, then they left as a result of we needed to abort the mission,” says Ben Hayoun-Stépanian. “There was an entire drama state of affairs occurring.”
If you wish to know precisely what the drama was, you’ll have to observe Ben Hayoun-Stépanian’s new documentary, Doppelgängers³, which premieres this weekend at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. Suffice to say, even when the experiment didn’t go as deliberate, it nonetheless proved her level: Humanity’s quest to discover house wants enter from individuals who aren’t millionaires or leaders of presidency house companies.
When she’s not making movies, Ben Hayoun-Stépanian is an artist and the SETI Institute’s “designer of experiences.” One in all her targets is to deliver “queer ecofeminist views” to house journey, and with Doppelgängers³ she wished to point out people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos—those looking for to commercialize house journey—what it means to colonize the cosmos.
“It’s a name for motion, a name for members of the general public to take possession of those futures,” Ben Hayoun-Stépanian says of the movie, “as a result of when you’re not, different persons are going to do it for you.”
Ben Hayoun-Stépanian’s methodology for bringing in these voices is twofold. For one, she spends a great chunk of the documentary speaking to specialists—planetary scientist Christopher McKay, physicist Michio Kaku, amongst others—about trauma, house exploration, and parallel selves. For the opposite, she depends on her doppelgängers: Lucia Kagramanyan and Myriam Amroun, two individuals who share Ben Hayoun-Stépanian’s background however not her lived experiences.
{Photograph}: Nick Ballón
